Current events

Much has been written about the unanswered questions arising from the Supreme Court's DOMA decision, chief among them the status of people who got married where same-sex marriage is legal, in New York, say, but live where it's not, Indiana, for example. Do they or do they not qualify for federal benefits? Here's an unexpected twist:

Not exactly an uplifitng message for those hoping for a better life:

"Perfect metaphor for the times" alert:

One of only a handful of a type of small bird from Asia to have been spotted in the U.K. in the past two centuries was thrilling twitchers off the northwest coast of Scotland earlier this week.

Then, tragedy struck. It flew into the blade of a wind turbine and was killed.

I agree with the thrust of Robert J. Samuelson's concerns, if not the near-hysterical fear:

He's absolutely right:

The pilot of a sightseeing helicopter that made an emergency landing on New York's Hudson River says he was just doing his job.

Michael Campbell tells the New York Post (http://bit.ly/12xUuqj ) everything was going smoothly Sunday when suddenly he heard "a big boom."

I suspect Charles Krauthammer is right about gay marriage:

I was one of those who both preached the virtues of cursive writing and criticized as misguided efforts by the General Assembly to mandate its teaching. Perhaps the mandate attempt wasn't so misguided after all:

The worst of both worlds:

The debate over the U.S. government’s monitoring of digital communications suggests that Americans are willing to allow it as long as it is genuinely targeted at terrorists. What they fail to realize is that the surveillance systems are best suited for gathering information on law-abiding citizens.

Polling has become such a commonplace and significant part of what passes for news coverage these days that I think journalists have an obligation to note the source of the polld the ycite, since advocates for one position or another have a natural inclination to find evidence for what they already believe. That's a practice this Indianapolis Star editorial did not observe (and, yes, I acknowledge it's a failing I've been guilty of a time or two):

The same fragmentation we've seen in television is coming to radio, too:

When Wi-Fi hits the car, or whatever type of cheap Internet access deploys in automobiles, Sirius XM will be challenged too. Right now, Sirius XM’s Internet play is laughable.