History is Happening Now

History has not been happening much this past week, and for that I apologize.  I’ve been too busy with my “day job” to write substantial posts here, and I’m frankly burnt out on election coverage.  If you haven’t yet decided who you’re voting for tomorrow — assuming you haven’t already voted — I don’t have much to tell you.  Good luck deciding.  As a sort of penance for my blogo-negligence, I am proud to link to a streaming version of “Smallitics,” an episode of the Stanford Storytelling Project, a radio/podcast program I serve as the fiction editor for.  For this episode, I interviewed a fellow English grad student from Montana who recently married her partner of seven years.  It is unclear what will happen to their marriage should Proposition 8 — which would define marriage in the California state constitution as between a man and a woman –  pass, but I think it’s worth listening to their story, whatever your views on marriage.  To make my views clear:  I think homosexual partners who want to commit to each other for life should be allowed to have their desire recognized in exactly the same way that heterosexual couples can.  If you live in California, I encourage you to vote no on Prop 8.  Prop 8 is a hideously discriminatory depredation of human dignity.  Just say no.