Polling Gay Marriage

Results of a new CNN poll on gay marriage have been released:

Nearly half of all Americans think the Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll.

Mid-term Election Gay Marriage Bait

In a pretty clear attempt to get individual congressmen on the record on gay marriage, Rep. Lamar Smith has sponsored a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives disapproving of Judge Walker's ruling on the Prop 8 case. Co-sponsors include Michele Bachmann, Steve King, Peter Hoekstra, and Missouri's own Todd Akin. In other words, the usual suspects. The disapproving language of the bill is not available online yet. To keep track of this legislation, you can follow it here.

A feature on the Gao brothers from the LA Times:

Their weapons are brushes; their battlefields are canvases. And here in China, where political dissent often leads to prosecution, the works of avant-garde artists can sometimes appear as threatening as a mass protest.

Enter the Gao brothers, Qiang and Zhen, soft-spoken siblings who have long used startling images of Mao Tse-tung as a focal point for their sculptures, paintings and performance pieces.

The brothers' work will be at the Kemper Museum of Art in Kansas City starting September 17.

Levi Johnston's New Goal

First, mayor of Wasilla, next - vice presidential candidate?

From the Huffington Post: Levi confirms he is running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and he's ready to talk about his plans. On his intention to run for his hometown's highest office, he says "It's for real. I'm going to go there and do what I can. Obviously that's where I grew up and that's my home. It's always going to be home to me. [My son] Tripp's going to grow up there and I want to change a few things."