Some things to make you think

[emmagrant01]

• An activist college student from maine winds up on the government's watch list, apparently just for speaking her mind. This story is starting to sound very familiar.

• The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a dispute over same-sex marriages, rejecting a challenge to the nation's only law sanctioning such unions. Good for them.

• 'They hate our policies, not our freedom.' Quietly released Pentagon report contains major criticisms of Bush administration.

Comments

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

Interesting spin on the Supremes' silence. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/thedailykos2/68835.html)

*wields your icon back at youuuuu*

(this time with fewer html screwups, I hope)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! I don't agree with his/her assertion that the government should get out of the marriage business, though. I know it's a popular Libertarian position, but I completely agree with Jonathan Rausch's argument in his book (that I'm currently reading). He talks at length about the benefits society affords people who are married, and argues that if there were no government standards for what constitutes a legal marriage and what doesn't, chaos would ensue. He's extremely convincing! :-)