Prop 8 has finally been overturned by a fine federal judge, deemed unconstitutional by a mile, not to mention unconscionable, unrealistic, not a little bit hateful and just plain dumb.
The ad teams at a recent event I attended were tasked with one of most challenging questions facing modern media today: How to save/reinvent book publishing. And they had about 72 hours to do it.
Wouldn't it be horrible if all this stunning, irrefutable evidence -- death, floods, heat waves, the worst this and the most violent that in 1,000 years -- were some sort of surefire sign that we have amplified the imminent implosion of this planet?
Calmly, quietly, with little fanfare or media attention, after more than seven years and thousands of soldiers dead, the U.S. has officially ended its combat presence in Iraq.