Burt Humburg just gave me a link to this Daily Show story on gay marriage in Massachusetts. It's hilarious.
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Burt Humburg sent me this picture from a conference we attended 3 years ago at Berkeley. I think I have to do it as a popup image because it's too wide for the columns on this blog. It's a bunch of us at dinner at Spangler's in Berkeley.
Egnorance: The egotistical combination of ignorance and arrogance.
The article that Burt Humburg and I wrote will be in the next issue of Skeptic, but in light of today's ruling, they decided to post it online today. You can see it here.
We ought to take that guy's response - That's so stupid I'm not even going to answer it - and throw it in the face of everyone (like him) who announces portentiously that "marriage is threatened."
This is what it's like in Massachusetts now:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30475
"Why take time to do the research when saying it is so much faster?"
LOL! Perfect.
I live in Massachusetts, right by all those locales they used for the hysterical Homometers segment. The only significant change wrought by the legalization of gay marriage here is that we've been hearing a lot less from the religious nutjobs who object to it. They seem to have moved on to places where can successfully screw up individual liberty; this isn't one of them.