Wednesday morning roundup

Another way gay people are destroying America: wanting to be at the side of their ailing loved ones.

This is so David Brooks: make a huge, unsupported leap out of otherwise interesting studies. While I agree that people who don't read novels can be boring, I think he misinterprets the results (first of all, how is he defining success?), and I think it's wonderfully rich of him to blame Obama for Detroit's having lost its competitive edge.