...he skipped the meetings* where Democrats were trying to work out a compromise on the public option, and then he killed the Medicare buy-in proposal they'd developed -- despite endorsing that exact proposal months before. In doing so, he doomed a great piece of policy, and by doing it at the last minute, endangered the rest of the bill, too. But the reality is that the legislation simply wouldn't have passed without his vote. And after extracting his pound of flesh, he voted "aye."

Followed immediately by:

That wasn't Lieberman's only moment as a good soldier for the Democrats:

According to Ezra, that was Joe being a good soldier.  

I wonder if E will feel the same way when he has a child -- and realizes what Joe was really doing.

And it looks like we may be moving to the Bay Area in the next month.  I've been a Southern Cali boy my entire life. Gonna be strange. It's had me in a melancholy state lately, but it's a great area and it's time, honestly, for a new adventure in life. Bring it on.

How about Jackonsonville, Florida?

The changes may seem surprising for a city where churches that have long condemned homosexuality remain a powerful force. But as demographers sift through recent data releases from the Census Bureau, they have found that Jacksonville is home to one of the biggest populations of gay parents in the country.

In addition, the data show, child rearing among same-sex couples is more common in the South than in any other region of the country, according to Gary Gates, a demographer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gay couples in Southern states like Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas are more likely to be raising children than their counterparts on the West Coast, in New York and in New England.