Miss Manners rocks

Miss Manners answers a slightly snarky letter on forms of address for same-sex married couples.

First, she snarks right back.

Second, the advice is perfectly good and carefully accounts for all the usual permutations (sharing last name, or not, preferring Mrs., or Ms.)

Third, in the case of "two men not sharing a last name" she recommends that "each be addressed by his full name with the appropriate honorific (Mr., Dr., Colonel)."

Took me a minute to catch it.

Colonel.

That's a classy and understated way of making a point.