Because I only played by myself, I never even considered naming the pieces when I was young.
Chart of the Day: “Explicit Support for Same-Sex Marriage by State and Age” (pdf) by Jeff Lax and Justin Phillips of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Created using data collected for a joint paper on gay rights.
Prof. Lax breaks it down:
Seven states cross the 50% mark overall as of our current estimates, but the generation gap is huge. If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or older, none would allow same-sex marriage. If policy were set by those under 30, only 12 states would not allow-same-sex marriage.
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booklover:libraryland:crumbler:
An LA Times list complete with cute icons to tell you if a book (for example) has an author as a character, plays with form, or ‘comments on its own bookishness,’ among other delightful postmodern tropes. As for the list itself, Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn would both make for excellent summer reading. (via)
Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon… I’m down for this entire list!
I have read a number of these, and have even more on my ‘to read’ list. Excellent.
I need to dash off to work, so extended commentary TBA later.
For now, to speak of at least one positive: voter turnout for an off-year election was 60%. That’s 25% greater than what our Secretary of State predicted. Suck it, Matt Dunlap.
Already, the comments people are leaving…I’m full of shame. We had our chance, and now we’ll never be more than “disgusting hillbillies” in the nation’s eyes anymore. How can I even begin to make it right?
