Scientific research shows that the guy you just cussed out on the freeway may have gotten you home from the commute earlier.

http://latimesblogs.latimes...

(Of course, we probably have more jerks than we need.  Ain't *THAT* always the case...)

Posted elsewhere but deserves its own thread.

http://www.progressivefox.c...

Why America needs single-payer government-run health insurance.

...since we've had a good, rousing same-sex-marriage fight, it's not looking promising for those defending the last shreds of Proposition 8.  The judge is going to make them use evidence and stuff to prove their case.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-b...

Of course, it could all be a bipartisan trick:

The couples, represented by Theodore Olson and David Boies - the lawyers for George W. Bush and Al Gore in the case that decided the 2000 presidential election - say Prop. 8 violates the U.S. Constitution by denying equal treatment to gays and lesbians. Gay-rights groups did not raise that issue before the California court, unwilling to risk a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the right to marry.