Shrewd Point

David Brooks has a great column today on the "Sandra Bullock" test and happiness (from career or marriage).

He draws a compelling conclusion:

In short, modern societies have developed vast institutions oriented around the things that are easy to count, not around the things that matter most. They have an affinity for material concerns and a primordial fear of moral and social ones.

And then Andrew Sullivan pulls an end around and makes a very clever conservative-family oriented argument in favor of gay marriage.

I've written before that I support gay marriage, but am not taking to the streets over the issue. Sullivan's point is the smartest argument in favor of gay marriage I've yet to hear and I imagine had the Prop 8 opponents taken this tact, they would have won.