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And then (I hate to belabor a point. No, that’s wrong, I think we must belabor this point.) there is this, from no less than Andrew Sullivan: The pictures of all those regular and not-so-regular couples waiting patiently in line for hours and hours and even days to get a piece of paper which probably …

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On my earlier squib pointing readers to the Albuquerque Journal’s gay marriage poll, I drew several unexpected responses from readers who think same-sex unions are “abnormal”. Josh Marshall last night published an amazingly touching letter from a reader about another time and place in our society in which the same argument was made: I’m 62 …

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The new stove arrived yesterday. The old stove was one of those hideous cheap white things that’s always the cheapest thing on the showroom floor. We inherited it with the house when we bought it. The new one is a thing of beauty. That’s my first omelette cooking on the new stove. It has spinach …

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