Our trivia team was on MSNBC. Unfortunately, we appeared onscreen as the reporter said the word “nerds.”
Apparently you need to use Internet Explorer when watching the clip. The “MS” in MSNBC does stand for Microsoft, after all.
Here’s
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Non-Errors: “Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.” Most of these are a big relief to me. (I’ve always felt guilty when using hopefully in its nontraditional sense.) But I’m still going to use among instead of between when I’m referring to three or more entities. That is the only sort of English up with which I will put. DOMA has faced its first court test and has been found constitutional by a federal district judge in Florida. Here’s the opinion. This is good, kind of, because any signal that courts will uphold DOMA will take even more pressure off the Senate to pass the FMA. (One of the reasons Bush is going to stop pushing for the FMA right now is that most of the Senate thinks DOMA makes the FMA unnecessary.) If a court strikes down DOMA, the fundamentalist Christian right is going to have a massive spazz attack and we’ll be that much closer to a constitutional ban on gay marriage across the entire nation. Even so, as I mention in the post linked above, the U.S. Supreme Court would probably uphold DOMA. So again, we seem to have reached a tentative equilibrium right now under which same-sex marriage is a state-by-state issue. In a couple of decades things will get better, because young people support gay marriage in much greater numbers than their elders, and people will see that just because there’s gay marriage in some states, doesn’t mean the world falls apart.Non-Errors
DOMA Upheld