Odds and Ends

Next up: Bush Ter Down! As promised, those wacky World Can't Wait kids tied up traffic on Market Street protesting the war. As our waggish commenters noted, it did indeed rain -- but no word on whether they got buzzed by the Blue Angels yet.

And finally: the California Court of Appeals decided (.pdf) 2-1 that it's constitutional to ban gay marriage, because the state legislature has total power to decide who gets to be married or not. They held that while you've got a fundamental right to marry in California, it only extends to people of the opposite sex. Dennis Herrera has vowed to appeal it to the California Supreme Court, and Mark Leno's going to reintroduce legislation to make gay marriage legal when the State Senate reconvenes.