We admit it. We're very interested in the goings on with same-sex marriage across the nation, but we're not attorneys here at The Village Voice. Fortunately for us, our friend Chris Geidner at Metro Weekly is (or used to be, before he gave it all up for the far better paying field of journalism). We chatted with Geidner in the above video to find out just what the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional really means. What will NOM do? When could same-sex lovin' Californians possibly get married? And what's the path ahead?

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Have you been ignoring this man?

​Have you heard? Everyone is ignoring Ron Paul! Jon Stewart was one of the first to spot the media turning a blind eye to the Texas Congressman; even Paul himself commented on the Daily Show piece: "This guy on Comedy Central or something. His name is Jon Stewart," he said. "He's an honest person, he wants the truth and when we do agree, he lets people know." We're not ignoring you, Ron, and certainly not on your 76th birthday. Our present to you? We try to find out why everyone is ignoring you.

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The original memoirist, St. Augustine.

​Sometimes, the most boring people are the most effusive. The person who traps you on the other side of their monologue at a party; the person shouting into their cellphone on the bus. The constant tweeter. The teenager with 5,000 Facebook photos of her and her spray-tanned friends grinning in a line. These people are a fact of life, and well, whatever -- except that now, as Neil Genzlinger points out in an article in the Times' Book Review, they're all writing memoirs. Bad ones.

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The new Prozac.

​Rachelle Hruska, founder of social gossip party site Guest of a Guest, is on some next-level Scientology-type new age shit. This morning she took to Twitter to stand up for cashews and niacin in place of antidepressants, and to scold Runnin' Scared paterfamilias Foster Kamer.

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​As previously reported, a whole host of iconic Coney Island spots, including Ruby's bar and Shoot the Freak, lost their licenses last week, which means they'll have to leave their long-held premises so that new [read: more profitable] blood [read: "a very large sports bar"] can take over. Folks against this move have been pretty vocal, rallying last Saturday, circulating an online petition, and emailing and calling Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Guess what? Marty wrote back! UPDATED.More >>

Voice staff writer Steven Thrasher appeared on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show yesterday to discuss Don't Ask, Don't Tell and being gay in 2010. Listen to him discuss and answer callers' questions below:

​The Voice's own staff writer Steven Thrasher, author of "White America Has Lost Its Mind," appeared on 98.7 KISS FM's show Open Line this Sunday. If you missed it, don't fret: You can listen to him discuss and answer call-in questions about his (Roger Ebert-approved) piece -- which has been shared 19,000 times on Facebook and accrued 1,453 reader comments, along with some 1,000 emails of both the positive and negative variety) -- by clicking 10.03.10-Clip 2, after the jump.

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​TechCrunch Disrupt - which is like a G8 conference for people who get evangelical over things like iPhone apps, except the protesters are inside with everyone else - is in New York right now. The person responsible for importing San Fransisco's tech scene to this city for three long, long days, TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington, who basically invented gadget punditry, has now had his second Asshole Moment of the week.

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​Eliot Spitzer's talk with CBS News analyst Jeff Greenfield was last night at the 92nd Street Y, and it started with Greenfield noting that Spitzer only agreed to talk "without conditions." Needless to say, this had serious potential for all parties involved, especially the audience. And Spitzer and Greenfield delivered on it.

One quick note: The most comprehensive account of the talk out right now is the Daily News, but the one that appeared on their blog*. The other one, that's running in print, is by NYDN reporter Erin Einhorn, and it was as predictable as it was brazenly sensational. The reporter - who was obnoxious* even before she filed her bush-league account of the night - offered up a Silda Spitzer sighting, a narrative invoking quotes from a barely sourced pitchfork-raising mob of one and a woman whose opinion of Spitzer had changed over the course of the night, and the words "the hooker-happy former governor" in the second sentence -- and, of course, "Disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer" as the first five words in the headline. Even the Post didn't go that far.

Here's what was actually discussed:

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Image via NYDN.

​Given his recent round of press, Eliot Spitzer's conversation at the 92nd Street Y last night with CBS News analyst Jeff Greenfield was, in a certain way, inevitable. At the beginning of the talk, Greenfield informed the audience that Spitzer told Greenfield he'd do the talk under no conditions, and Spitzer didn't pass on any of the questions that Greenfield or the audience gave him... except for one.

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