The critiques of Obama’s slow movement on DOMA and DADT are certainly justified and heartfelt, though anyone who was paying attention a year ago (slog) could have predicted that an administration facing a collapsing economy, multiple wars, and a looming healthcare crisis would make some painful decisions about priorities.

Obviously, I know nothing about creating an addictive buzzmillion page-view blog that commands such widespread readership, but I would love to see that platform used to intelligently advocate once or twice a day rather than repeated foot-stomping. Then again, perhaps more rigorous discussions of the complicated issues for taking action — e.g., national versus state, legal versus legislative strategies, how the executive branch can act with and without the congress — don’t bring in compulsive commenters and regular advertisers.