The Big Picture and the Closeup

Same-sex marriage and public acceptance of legal equality for LGBT folk has broken out of the beachhead phase; defenders of inequality have turned to erecting enclaves for discrimination like the failed “religious freedom” law in Arizona. Marijuana legalization is still in the beachhead phase. We’ll know it’s broken out when enclaves start being built against that. But redoubts almost never hold.

Figuring out girls with a little help from Judy Garland and Marlene Dietrich …

What were they thinking when they passed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?” Here’s what. And it was just as wrong then as it is now.