Juliet, Juliet! Wherefore Art Thou Juliet?

Sometimes, Bostonist has found, the world is just too damn funny. Such is the case with Romeo and Juliet, the celebrated swan couple in the Public Garden who, the Globe reports today, are both female. Where to begin with this wonderful story? The Globe wisely gets quotes from gay marriage pundits, pro and con (our favorite is from Marty Rouse of MassEquality: "We should cherish and love our swans, no matter whom they choose to swim with"). We imagine Rick Santorum is fulminating and SJC Chief Justice Margaret Marshall is having a chuckle. We hope that silly bigots in Mass. and elsewhere are angrily saying, "See?! See what happens?!!" And we are more than a little suspicious of the Department of Parks and Recreation after learning that they sat on this story for a month, fearing it would hurt tourism. Lastly, we are glad to have learned from the story that determining a swan's sex is "not just a matter of turning the birds upside down." Now we'll know not to make that mistake.