LOL DAYEST OF JOBS: My posting at MarriageDebate is somewhat less random than my posting here! And I really do try to find stuff which will interest anyone who wants to know where we are these days on attitudes toward sex, gender, parenting, and marriage–the most frequent tag I use is “culture.” Other posters include Elizabeth Marquardt, IMAPP as an entity (that’s me in terms of who hits “publish,” but I don’t choose those posts), and sometimes others. Here’s my guide to recent offerings which might fascinate readers of this here blog:

this week: lying children, guilty children, gay marriage and heteronormativity on “Top Chef,” Utah going soft on polygamy, and mandatory testing for genetic diseases in children up for adoption. And more!

last week: Why doesn’t cohabitation work as a “test drive” for marriage?; why do tightwads fall in love with wastrels like me?; how stark is the generation gap when it comes to gay marriage?; do single women poach taken men?; plus gallows humor, Cat’lick humor, a really startling moment from the Obama administration’s DOMA “defense” brief, multiple legal parents in Delaware, and yet more.

the week before that: the low rate of gay marriage in Vermont; the decreasing rate of marriage among black women with higher education; a startling statistic about wives; and a deeply moving column by Jonathan Rauch. And, as always, more.

Seriously, if nothing in those descriptions interests you, are you from Mars?!

As always, please do send me interesting links you find! This is a labor of love for me–I did it even when I wasn’t being paid.