My shop, Isette, has just gotten the highest amount of traffic I ever have on Etsy today, and I finally tracked it down to this post at the Washington Post, more specifically, Chatalogical Humor.  It's pretty far down, so let me quote from the update for today:
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Springfield, Va.: If there were a single object that existed in the world, that could sum up everything that Gene hates and is against, I'm thinking it might look a little something like this...

Gene Weingarten: You're right!
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I think the ring hit on two of his favorite rants - The "bourgeois tastes and lassitudinous habits of the American public -- advertising Americans to the world as fat, lazy, tasteless clods" and his ultimate dislike of large weddings ("He has called them unseemly, ostentatious celebrations of self."  Oh, both quotes are taken directly from the Chatalogical Humor FAQS )

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I hope the satirical nature of the ring is appreciated.  Like the mustache ring and the spectacles ring, the hint ring is meant to be funny. I wish I could find the right words... It's meant to be a little commentary on weddings, engagements and the expected... I wonder if I could send Gene Weingarten one of the rings...he can destroy it as an effigy.