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Yesterday the Fourth Circuit Court refused South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s demand to continue the stay on same-sex marriages during his appeal. Almost simultaneously, a separate federal court ruled that South Carolina must recognize out-of-state marriages, prompting Wikipedia’s marriage map monitor to apply the above blue stripes of progress. Late last night Wilson took his stay extension demand to …

Same-sex marriages commenced yesterday in Kansas following the three-day waiting period that began on Thursday. However nearly 100 of the state’s 105 counties continue to refuse gay couples as state Attorney General Derek Schmidt presses his claim that last week’s ruling only applies to two counties. Therefore, Wikipedia’s marriage map monitor has regressed his map and applied the red stripes …

Wikipedia’s marriage map monitor, who decloaked this week as a JMG reader, has made a change to reflect the complicated situation in Missouri.

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As there is no stay in this morning’s ruling, the Wikipedia folks immediately updated their map. Notice, however, that Alaska has retreated to light blue. Now we wait to see what the Arizona attorney general and SCOTUS will do.

West Virginia just went dark blue and Nevada should join the party this afternoon. Zoom, zoomity, zoom!

UPDATE: JMG reader Bill directs us to the Flag Of Equal Marriage, which after today will be adding more stars.

Obviously, this map jumps the gun in several states – but it sure is nice to look at.

For now…

Mediaite reports: Sometimes political candidates screw up on the campaign trail. They might make a gaffe or two during a speech, but it’s the rare politician indeed who plagiarizes off of WIkpedia. And that’s exactly what Rachel Maddow caught Senator Rand Paul doing at a speech in Virginia, in which he lifted parts of the Wikipedia entry on… the movie …

The digital age claims another victim. The 244-year-old Encyclopedia Britannica will be going out of print this year, abdicating to the likes of Google and Wikipedia. Most adults will remember looking up information in the IRL knowledge-base’s volumes, but the iconic encyclopedia only represents 1 percent of the company’s total sales today. Britannica traditionally published a new set of tomes …

Newt Gingrich’s communications director thinks there’s nothing wrong with his removal of embarrassing items from his boss’ Wikipedia page. As recently as last week, Newt Gingrich’s communications director has been criticized by editors on Wikipedia for dozens of edits he has made and requested in defense of his candidate. While some of the changes were minor, Joe DeSantis has removed …

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Via Wikipedia, the state of health care payment systems around the world as of December 2009. Blue is single payer, green is “universal by other means.”

Actually, he isn’t. But Farah, the founder of World Net Daily, a Christianist version of the World Weekly News, is very unhappy that somebody keeps editing his Wikipedia profile to say that he’s a dirty pole-smoker. “Joseph Francis Farah is an Evangelical Christian American journalist and noted homosexual of Lebanese and Syrian heritage.” – the first line of my current …

It looks like John McCain is getting his foreign policy “expertise” from teh interwebs. In a speech given today about the growing war between Russia and Georgia, some of his lines appear directly plagiarized from Wikipedia. A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain’s speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country …