Supreme Court filibusters--IOKIYAR

Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona sure didn't take too much time reminding the country why the Republican Party needs to be destroyed. It hasn't even been a whole week since the election and Kyl is on record as threatening filibusters of any Obama Supreme Court nominees that he deems "too liberal." He is from the same Party that threatened to change the rules of the Senate to eliminate filibusters in order to get Bush Court nominees passed, because it was unfair of them not to get "an up or down" vote. Remember that? As we all know now, however, IOKIYAR.
(It's Ok If You Are a Republican, if you don't know.) Be prepared to see a lot of this kind of intellectual and ethical dishonesty for as long as there are any Republicans still alive.

Human rights advance in California!

The California Supreme Court just announced its decision that same-sex marriages are indeed constitutional in the state. The money quote is on page 7:
Furthermore, in contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual's capacity to
establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care
for and raise children does not depend upon the individual's sexual orientation, and more generally,
that an individual's sexual orientation--like a person's race or gender--does not constitute a legitimate
basis upon which to deny or withhold legal rights. We therefore conclude that in view of the substance
and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship, the California
Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether
gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples.
Congrats to all!