CT Gay Marriage Codified

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzpRwGCQ-cTsE0JSAGf3COH_csWgD97NUA700

Connecticut finalizes and codifies gay marriage by healthy margins.  I will argue that this is a healthy and appropriate turn of events.  Gladly, compassion and justice have won out.

Irony of Ironies?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/

This is a survey America will have to contend with.  How is it that certain religious factions are more accepting of torture than others, and especially more than the relatively non-religious?

Qualified Hopefulness?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/30/stocks-big-april-could-be_n_194237.html

Nobody wants to be unrealistically hopeful, but any good news is welcome.  Perhaps, just perhaps, as unpopular as the TARP and its implementation have been . . . perhaps it is working.

Banks aren't lending enough, people are still hurting, and Elizabeth Warren has been warning about waste and corruption, but maybe . . . maybe we've been well shepherded after all.

Maybe.

Aches and Pains

http://nhregister.com/articles/2009/05/01/news/a1_--_arthritis.txt

As a non-baby-boomer who deals with this, I find this troubling and have to wonder what environmental factors might play a part in this seeming epidemic of Arthritis.