Chris Bowers at MyDD logs a Newsweek poll of positions on gay marriage nationwide. His analysis:

'Among those under 30, support for equal marriage rights borders on a super-majority. Among those under 65, opposition to equal rights is only 40%.

I don't put much faith in polls. That being said, this looks like a real shift from last winter, when most pollsters were telling a very different story.

So with support from the mainstream uncertain, amendment-pushers will have to fall back on their reliable populist base for support.

But wait! "Backers of Gay Marriage Ban Find Tepid Response in Pews":

"Our side is basically asleep right now," Matt Daniels, founder of the Alliance for Marriage, which helped draft the proposed amendment, said in an interview last week.

The Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, said: "I don't see any traction. The calls aren't coming in and I am not sure why."

So mainstream America is cool with gay marriage, and most rank-and-file Christians don't care enough to take action. Maybe people have more important things to worry about.

Here's my favorite part:

"We need to do a better job of educating our base," Dr. Land (president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention) said, "although I don't think we can do better than Massachusetts is going to do for us."

But if weddings in Massachusetts are as educational as these were, then the bigots are left without a spigot.

"I'd like to hear that," Mr. Kerry added. "I'd like to hear you rap that."

"There’s something else connecting the sorry state of the U.S. job market and the images coming out of Abu Ghraib. The young soldiers taking the fall for the prison abuse scandal are the McWorkers, prison guards and laid off factory workers of Bush’s so-called economic recovery..."

Naomi Klein explores the domestic subtext of Abu Ghraib.

Found by Ping.

I found a great List from Drew Daniel (of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth):

'This genre gets a bad rap-- calling to mind a bunch of white guys in suits who use clunky gear to spew out supposedly revolutionary and certainly unlistenable bloops and fnnrts that actually amount to so much dreary audio-lint. Well, fuck you. I could bend over backwards trying to make musique concrète sound sexy and relevant by arguing that Timbaland's use of a baby crying as a riff in Aaliyah's "Are you That Somebody?" was musique concrète, or that Missy's backwards chorus is musique concrète; that basically any kind of music that uses sound as raw material to be manipulated and reshaped is already musique concrète. But I won't bother, because I happen to LOVE those white guys in their suits and ties.

I feel great!