A Huge Victory for Equality

In a landmark Supreme Court decision, gay marriage is now legal throughout the United States. This is a huge victory for equality. Also: it's about time.

Also read the awesome closing paragraph of the decision.

This New York Times article recounts highlights of the recent progress.

(Tip of the cap to Rachel Levy for the link to the closing paragraph and to too many people to mention for the news.)

"Graph-Theoretic" and "Graphical" Language in the Description of Marriages

This Onion article makes me realize that one can describe marriage laws very precisely using graph theory: allowing non-bipartite graphs, allowing hypergraphs, etc.

Clearly, the outcomes of the court cases ought to be written using graph-theoretic (or, to use a perhaps unfortunate pun, "graphical") language.

Note: I have no comment about self-edges.

The Thermodynamics of Love

This article is apparently about the thermodynamics of love. I have no further comments. :)

OK, I do have one more comment: In a sequel article, perhaps the author will ask whether sex is endothermic or exothermic.

(Tip of the cap to whoever does the Facebook posts for Physics Today.)

Fabulous Protest Signs

Here are some absolutely fabulous protest signs in support of gay marriage. Hilarious... and in support of a good cause!

(Tip of the cap to Puck Rombach.)

But are both players perfectly rational?

The new issue of Mini-AIR includes a pointer to a paper called Costly but worthless gifts facilitate courtship.

Let me guess: Both players (or maybe only one of them is a player?) are assumed to be perfectly rational. Yup, this is how it all works.

Bloody economists. :)

Proposition 8 Ruled Unconstitutional

Sometimes, there really is justice: California's Proposition 8 (banning same-sex marriage) has been ruled unconstitutional and overturned.

Excellent!

Today I am ashamed to be from California.

Come on, people. This is lame. Let people live their lives as they see fit when it does no harm to anyone else.