NEXT UP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR! Over at MarriageDebate, I’ve been battling Jonathan Rauch. This is a totally disorganized series of posts, and not meant as a syllogistic, Agree Or Be Damned! exercise. Nonetheless, I think a lot of fascinating issues have been raised, and I’d love to know what my readers think. So go, go, Gadget dialectic! Email me if you’ve got something to say about any of these posts.

The series so far: Sunrise, Sunset: Marriage, children, mortality, and singing Jews.

Marriage Promotion: Cultural side-effects of SSM.

How It Won’t Happen: Why federalism can’t be the answer.

The future is a drag, man. The future is a flake. The arguments won’t be much different after state-by-state “experiments” with SSM.

Teach Your Children: The mamas and the papas.

My Baby Just Cares for Me: Care, sex, and exceptions.

Coming up, probably (though not definitely, as I’m madly busy): What should you not do out of wedlock?

Do fidelity rates matter?

Polyamory–should we care?

The Discovery of the Homosexual a.k.a. chewing off one’s own footnotes

The hideous future: Jonathan’s best arguments. (I’ll almost certainly do this one, since it seems wrong to avoid the points where he’s most persuasive.)