“The marriage certificate is a kind of currency, like paper money. We value it because others do.”

–Jonathan Rauch, Gay Marriage. Still quoting bits I like.

RauchWatch 2004: In chapter three, we at last get sex! And it’s really well-done. (Yes, I do feel like a thirteen-year-old skimming Ulysses looking for the “good parts.”) But it’s immediately followed with, and possibly supported by (I need to think about how heavily Rauch’s claims about sex rest on this historical/psychological account), some just astonishingly fatalist, unsourced, melodramatic, and just-not-true! fake history. I would love some footnotes here to see where Rauch is getting this stuff. I expect much, much better from him. …More when I’ve finished the book.

DahliaWatch 2004: Mostly dead. But as Miracle Max tells us, mostly dead is partly alive!