Massachusetts court rules ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. But it is bad for the Democrats? Will this “prove” to the swing voter that the world is going to hell in a handbasket?

that Wired News has a special section about E-voting and the issues that surround innovations in voting methods. A worthwhile read.

is almost certainly at the root of many of the current differences between Europe and the US, related to the situation in Iraq but also in many other domains. An Economist article from this week’s edition delves into the question. The idea of “American exceptionalism,” for those that don’t know, dates back all the way to de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.

There’s another very interesing discussion of this concept in the form of a transcript of the PBS show, Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg.

Farhad Manjoo has written an excellent article about touch-screen voting and a woman who has researched the system that will be widely used in upcoming elections: An open invitation to election fraud. It’s at Salon.com, so you’ll probably have to click through an ad to view the whole article.

Kevin Drum of CalPundit posted An Interview with Paul Krugman yesterday.