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Views On Gay Marriage Linked to Age, Poll Shows

by derek, posted to News / Us

Support for gay marriage closely follows age, a PollingPlace.com poll shows.

So, it seems clear to me that American society will someday look back on those fighting for their repressed definition of the word “marriage” with the same distaste that we now look back on those that fought against the civil rights movement. You’d think we’d […]

Sexy Scooter

by mm, posted to News / Odd / Our Government

If Scooter Libby winds up in some cushy white-collar detention facility, he’ll have more time to do what he’s really passionate about: writing bad erotic fiction. And he’s got some company in the Family Values crowd. Lauren Collins writes in The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town,

Libby has a lot to live up […]

Americans More Liberal Than They Let On

by derek, posted to Articles / Our Government

Eric Alterman opens an article in The Nation with:

Here is the liberals’ problem in a nutshell: More than 30 percent of Americans happily answer to the appellation “conservative,” while 18 percent call themselves “liberal.” And yet when questioned by pollsters, a super-majority of more than 60 percent take positions liberal in everything but name. Indeed, […]