Backers of a measure to legalize same-sex marriage in New Jersey reacting to a 7-to-6 vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of the bill. [Via The New York Times 12/11/2009]
George Burgess has lived and worked most of his 96 years in Wyoming and Nebraska as a hired farmhand and in later years as a machinist. He still drives his truck eight miles into Torrington every day for a hot lunch and to socialize at the senior center. But his driver's license expires next month and he's worried about what he will do if he doesn't pass the test. "I might be on roller skates," he said. [Via The New York Times, 12/20/2009.]
