What else can you do now?

Thunder Road (acoustic) – Bruce Springsteen

Some odds and ends:

– My home state is just about to legalize gay marriage. The crucial vote was in the Senate, where the 25th vote necessary to ensure passage eventually came from my the senator from my hometown, Mary Haugen. Good for her and good for Washington! Remember when people used to say that the only support for marriage equality came from ‘unelected judges’? I’m glad that trope is on the way out.

– Hey look, Romney’s going to be the nominee. Who could have guessed it? Newt Gingrich was never going to win in a million years, nor was Rick Santorum. Once Pawlenty dropped out and Perry revealed himself to be dumber than a bag of Yukon Gold potatoes, this was pretty much inevitable.

– The Planned Parenthood/Komen Foundation hullabaloo was depressing and then tremendously encouraging. The orchestrated campaign over the last few years to systematically discredit Planned Parenthood is terrible. They provide a wide range of very important health services for people who would not otherwise have access to them. In terms of return-for-investment, there are few better places to donate than them. The outcry which erupted this week – forcing Komen to very quickly walk back their new policy, and resulting in a mass of donations to PP – is a very good demonstration of people power at work. It’s easy to overstate the importance of stuff like this (and the SOPA protests), so some caution is warranted, but it’s still awesome.

– I won the 2011 online Dominion tournament. That’s pretty cool.

– Just got my tickets to go see Bruce Springsteen in April. Super excited. And, I’m seeing Jeff Mangum in April, too. It’s going to be a great month.