What We Missed

Woohoo! The D.C. Council has given final approval to a bill that will legalize same-sex marriage. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is expected to sign the bill before Christmas.
Publisher’s Weekly’s feature on “picking” black books included this image on its cover. This was their response to the outrage.
A new study reveals serious gaps in young sexually active people’s knowledge about sex. (Cue, abstinence-only education!)
Tomorrow, Governor Paterson will be signing an executive order extending legal protections from discrimination to transgender employees of New York.
Why Thomas the Tank Engine is actually pretty sexist.
The 2010 Omnibus Appropriations bill was passed by Congress and, for the first time, eliminated all funding for abstinence-only sex education programs.