My head is spinning

[randy_byers]

So now the Department of Justice has said it will stop defending Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in the courts. Between multiple budget crises, Wisconsin (and Indiana and Ohio), Libya (and Bahrain and Yemen, etc), and now this, I can't keep up with what's going on anymore. It feels like something tidal is going on. And where it's goin' no one knows.

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[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Natural disasters are acts of the unhuman, although I'll grant you that they feel tidal too, in the sense of forces at work beyond our control. But everything else we're talking about is human, which puts them in a different category to my mind. It's the natural vs. the political, perhaps. Earthquakes and floods have no policy preferences, as far as I can tell.