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Court Rejects Same-Sex Marriage Ban in California

By JESSE McKINLEY and JOHN SCHWARTZ

A federal judge struck down a voter-approved ban on gay marriage, handing a temporary victory to gay rights advocates in a legal battle likely to be settled by the Supreme Court.

Oil Rig’s Owner Had Safety Issue at 3 Other Wells

By IAN URBINA

Confidential internal reports of Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon, offer an unusually candid view of safety and maintenance concerns.

In Gulf, Good News Is Taken With Grain of Salt

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

Reports that the oil has been rapidly breaking down have been met with skepticism.

Cyclists Are Said to Back Claims That Armstrong Doped

By JULIET MACUR and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Prosecutors may be able to corroborate Lance Armstrong’s use of performance-enhancing drugs without relying on an account provided by Floyd Landis, an admitted doper.

• Times Topics: Lance Armstrong | Floyd Landis

Google and Verizon in Talks on Web Priority

By EDWARD WYATT

An agreement could lay the foundation for a tiered system in which companies would pay to move their content faster, ending the policy of net neutrality and eventually leading to higher fees for consumers.Times Topics: Net Neutrality


Houston Chronicle
Smugglers' drugs wash up on Texas coast In the sand: cocaine, pot and crystal meth.
2 tropical disturbances watched as heat grips Houston


Quote of the Day
Gail Collins-NYT

One thing we learned this week was that people in Missouri are crazy about insiders.


This was a surprise. In the big, much-anticipated race for an open U.S. Senate seat, Missouri Democrats overwhelmingly voted to nominate Robin Carnahan, the secretary of state whose father was governor, whose mother was a U.S. senator and whose brother is currently a congressman. The Republican nominee is Roy Blunt, who has served seven terms in Congress and is the father of a former Missouri governor. In the House, Blunt was the interim majority leader between the disgraced Tom DeLay and the disgraceful John Boehner. Also, his wife is a lobbyist. This man is so far inside he could be a coal miner.


So are insiders back in? This would be shocking news to all the politicians who have been running around acting as if they’d spent less time inside than a Bedouin camel herder.  

Word For The Day
Merriam-Webster Online:

colloquy • \KAH-luh-kwee\ • noun

1 : conversation, dialogue

*2 : a high-level serious discussion : conference

Example Sentence:

The company's employees worried and speculated as the executive team remained closeted in an intense colloquy for the entire morning.

Did you know?

'Colloquy' may make you think of 'colloquial,' and there is indeed a connection between the two words. As a matter of fact, 'colloquy' is the parent word from which 'colloquial' was coined in the mid-18th century. 'Colloquy' itself, though now the less common of the two words, has been a part of the English language since the 15th century. It is a descendant of Latin 'loqui,' meaning 'to speak.' Other descendants of 'loqui' in English include 'eloquent,' 'loquacious,' 'ventriloquism,' and 'soliloquy,' as well as 'elocution' and 'interlocutor.'

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With permission from Clay Bennett 

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Inspiration

The Daily OM
Indecisiveness often arises because we are afraid of the unknown. Even though we will never truly know the outcome of any situation, if we go into it prepared to face whatever we fear we will be much more able to commit ourselves. Wavering is natural for it allows us to think more deeply about our actions. Putting things off indefinitely, however, makes it easier for us to worry unnecessarily and may even make things worsen as a result. Committing to making a definite choice today will lessen the amount of worry you have about things for it will put the future into your hands today.


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