Speaking of gay marriage, the California Assembly passed a bill yesterday allowing for a few rights to domestic partners. A long way from actual gay marriage and all the rights and privileges that provides, but a small step in the right direction.

One openly lesbian Assemblywoman directed this important observation to her fellow heterosexual Assemblymembers: You can be in your 14th marriage and automatically get what I can't get after 22 years. Where is the justice in that?