Perhaps that’s a small sign of progress at andrewsullivan.com ?

Just for the record, for anyone who cares: In 1994, I was a voting American (a legal one, too — for all those who frequently e-mail to ask if I am the token illegal on staff here). And I had been reading Andrew Sullivan for a quite a few years already, as it happens.

“What gives” is the highest court in Massachusetts imposed gay marriage on the state. I could see how that would make a governor sit down and think it through more thoroughly than he had ever done before.