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My vote for most iconic sign outside the Supreme Court this morning goes to “DEAR SCALIA: Y.O.L.O. #scotusyoloO.”

I confess I sought the sign out because I’d noticed it in my Instagram feed earlier in the morning and thought it was funny. Memes are funny. Youthful insouciance is (sometimes) funny. The notion that Antonin Scalia might just toss out DOMA and Prop 8 because YOLO, then maybe go march in a pride parade is very funny.

But on a deeper level, it struck me as a meaningful artifact of the cultural moment we’re witnessing. Read More