So it seems like Prop 8 might really go down–at least until it reaches the Supreme Court, where Anthony Kennedy will decide for 20 million American homos what they can or cannot do.  I never really thought about it, but the courts really are a bad forum for the bad guys.  They aren’t permitted to [...]

States where more than 60% of people under thirty don’t care to tell people what to do with their lives.
States where 50-60% of people under thirty don’t care to tell people what to do with their lives.
States where less than 50% don’t care to tell people what to do with their lives, and the majority [...]

This is a little sad, of course.  This woman is well-spoken, composed, and did all she could to plead her case–where she is indisputably in the right–only to hear a pat reply and the further humiliation of sporadic and unnecessary applause.  I can only imagine that she left the forum feeling more frustrated than ever, [...]

This is pretty amazing, and it’s 538.com doing what 538.com does best.  (They also have a very thorough look at the Iranian election, which is way worth it.)  And it’s way colorful.
If you assume that, as of 2009, LGBT rights are the closest barometer to judging a person or a state’s degree of social liberalism, [...]

The number of states that no longer discriminate against same-sex marriage has doubled in a week, from two to four.  “Civil unions,” which now appear to be a gateway drug as much as an untenable separate-but-equal institution, are probably going to become an anachronism.  I’m not suggesting that a dam is about to burst because [...]

NOTE: Updated
As ambivalent as I am about same-sex marriage, it’s a good day for a lot of people in Iowa.  That a paradigmatic “heartland” state would come out of nowhere to be the third state to permit people of the same gender to marry is pretty cool, actually.  (But then again, Iowa has always been [...]