Category: california
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Sad Days in California
Everything about the arguments about Prop 8 in front of the California Supreme Court is making me grouchy today. Let me enumerate: It’s a reminder that 52% of voters decided to take away the right to gay marriage, after 5 months of couples getting married and society not collapsing. It seems so freaking obvious that…
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Sometimes, putting family first means putting it off
This article on red state and blue state attitudes towards sex didn’t really tell me anything new. But this jumped out at me: Maybe these choices weren’t originally about values—maybe they were about maximizing education and careers—yet the result is a more stable family system. Not only do couples who marry later stay married longer;…
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The Climate of Fake America
Until last December, I had lived my entire life in the Upper Midwest (Michigan and Ohio) and the mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania). When I was getting ready to move to California, lots of people — friends, family, and strangers alike — made all sorts of denigrating comments about California and Californians. I was warned against becoming a…