First off, you have to watch this video and sign the petition.  It addresses the sad and dangerous fact that "on December 19, 2008, Ken Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund filed legal briefs defending the constitutionality of Prop 8 and seeking to nullify the marriages of 18,000 devoted same-sex couples solemnized before [.

First off, our friend Alice (who suffers good-humoredly my unrelenting pressure to become a JordanCornblog contributor) is off to tour Florence today.  Happy travels, Alice! Happily, she will not have to leave before the USWNT faces Iceland in their second game at the Algarve.  She (and the rest of us) will be able to follow it [.

It feels like Alaska here in NH this morning - and so my thoughts turn naturally to Sarah Palin.  She is a busy gal, you betcha. Everyone's read, if they follow her at all, about how she is blaming the press for the public's perceptions of her ... and stepping up to protect her family from [...]

Still no women's bracket, so far as I can tell, from the Prez. Come on, Barack - where's the women's hoops love? Seriously, write to the President here and let him know that he's sending a skewed message but just doing the men's NCAA Tournament bracket. Maybe remind him that he has a wife and two daughters .

Morning everybody! It's looking like a good reading day here in New Hampshire, although it's early yet!

The Bookeaters had an excellent meeting at the Exeter Inn last night, where we broke bread and discussed The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage. We all loved (and most of us read) the book, and I would highly recommend it as a portrait, not only of a marriage but of a period of time.