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(see? more frequent updates already! don’t you feel lucky?) This column on gfn.com (the Gay Financial Network, natch) stresses yet another reason why marriage is the most equitable arrangement for same-sex couples: taxation. I kinda like the sneaky way in which the Republican leadership reframed the estate tax debate by calling it the “death tax”, [...]

Good Lord. Two months without any posts, and you people are still here? Sorry about that. I got kinda busy around late October, and lost my will to blog after that whole November 2 nastiness. But I’m here again, and will be posting again regularly as time permits (more on that to follow). So. Cards [...]

War and Piece covers the possibilities of Kerry foreign policy. (Don’t remember where I stumbled across this one.) The NYT has the text of Al Sharpton’s speech. Quite good, really. (Thanks, Kristie.)

The National Review has a reaction piece to Barack Obama’s speech posted online that’s worth a good look. You can also read the speech text from Obama’s campaign site. For those of you who missed it Tuesday night: Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Illinois who’s pretty much a shoo-in by [...]

Those of you in the Third Missouri Congressional District may appreciate this rundown of how the Democratic candidates may fare in next week’s primary. Personally, I’m a Jeff Smith boy; he just has this aura about him. (It’s almost as though Bobby Kennedy were shrunk down and given a Napoleonic complex as motivation.) And I [...]