I am issuing a restrained congratulations to Cynthia Nixon, who announced her engagement to her girlfriend, Christine Marinoni, over the weekend while campaigning for same-sex marriage in New York. The congratulations is restrained because, although I am very excited for the happy couple and very much believe that any consenting adult should have the right to marry any other consenting adult, I don’t understand why anyone would want to marry a consenting adult who looks like a 12-year-old boy from an Adam Sandler film. But, hey, to each his own, right?

Congrats to Cynthia and Christine! I very much hope you two have the opportunity to wed in New York in the near future.

This got me thinking. Two of my friends here in Seattle got married over the weekend in New York City. They got back last night and showed me the photos today. It was a gorgeous and private wedding in Central Park, complete with a romantic carriage ride. They both came back glowing. They’ve been a couple for five years, they complement each other perfectly, they respect and honor and care for one another, and one of them is black and the other is white. In 1948, New York would have been one of a handful of U.S. states in which they could have been legally married. It was 1967 before all U.S. states allowed interracial marriage. When we look back on that today, it seems insane and ancient that we would have laws prohibiting a beautiful, loving couple like my friends from getting married. It is my hope that, to my children, bans on same-sex marriage will seem equally distant and silly.

Don’t mess with rich people, yo!

Paris Hilton’s been spending an awful lot of time at the Hollywood Hills home of her new boyfriend, Douche Reinhardt. And it’s been a typical Paris scene — loud parties, police getting called, paparazzi everywhere. Doug’s neighbors are SO over this, and they’re offering Doug’s landlord big bucks to give him the boot:

We’ve learned the neighbor (who we have been asked not to ID) has written a letter to the landlord of the place Paris and her BF Doug Reinhardt are living in — offering to pay the landlord $5,000 a month more than he’s getting now … if he gives Paris and Doug the boot.

The neighbor says Hiltie is ruining his life. She’s lived there a grand total of 5 days … already cops have been called twice because of loud parties, screaming and yelling, and vandalism.

The house in the Hollywood Hills had been listed at $22,000 a month. So the neighbor is willing to give the landlord $27,000 a month if Paris goes away.

And get this … we’re told the neighbor complained to Doug yesterday about all the ruckus since Paris moved in. Doug said, “This is what you have to expect because Paris and I are public figures.”

Does anyone else find it wildly amusing that someone would pay $22K a month to RENT a house? I mean, do you know what kind of house you could BUY for that kind of money? Even in LA? And it’s not like Doug’s living in LA temporarily — he knows he’s there for the long haul. So why rent at that price? I don’t care how rich you are, that’s just poor financial decision-making.

Anyway. Paris and Doug aren’t even home right now. They’re in Cannes, living it up and bothering the French neighbors.

Jennifer “Can’t Find Love” Hewitt gives boyfriend Jamie Kennedy a kiss before he performs at a comedy club in New York.

Wonder how long it’ll be before they’re engaged and then she changes her mind?

Pink and Carey Hart have most definitely reconciled, and the two were spotted arm-in-arm in Sherman Oaks on Saturday. Cuteness!!

Taylor Momsen rocks the uber-ripped jeans at Zootopia over the weekend.

I don’t understand why such a cute little girl insists on looking like a crackhead all the time.

Big huge congrats to Bachelorette Jen Schefft, who married fiance Joe Waterman at the Private Dining Rooms of Spiaggia in Chicago Friday night.

After a failed romance on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, and authoring the dating manual Better Single Than Sorry, Jen fell in love with Joe after meeting him on a blind date in February 2008.

“We really get each other,” she said last year after getting engaged. “I guess it’s true things move fast when you meet the right person.”