In case anyone has not gotten the word, a certain McCain insider doesn’t actually exist. The New York Times tells the story about the hoaxer who spread the word that Sarah Palin didn’t know that Africa was a continent.

Only days after California voters overturn a court ruling allowing same-sex marriage, a Connecticut court makes a similar ruling.

Dan Savage, the editorial director of The Stranger, writes in The New York Times that while the success of Prop 8 is disappointing, the Arkansas ballot measure that banned adoption by same-sex couples is terrifying.

Lisa Miller reminds us in Newsweek that while the U.S. is a highly religious country, the white born-again evangelicals who make up the Republican base are only a minority.

Mark Oppenheimer at Slate talks about the probability of the country electing Presidents of other minority groups in the near future. As expected, of the groups considered, atheists come in dead last. He says: “When the lion lies down with the lamb, when the President is a Republican Muslim and the Democratic speaker of the house is a vegan Mormon lesbian, when the Secretary of State is a Jain pacifist from the Green Party, they will all agree on one thing: atheists need not apply.” I appreciate his optimism, but I’m not so sure I like his concluding line: “If [an atheist] ever ran for president, he would need God’s help just as surely as he wouldn’t ask for it.” Excuse me, but haven’t we had about enough of God’s help in the last 8 years?

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