On the heels of Missouri defensive lineman Michael Sam's coming out, ESPN's entirely unscientific online poll shows two-thirds support for a gay NFL player across every state in America except Mississippi and Tennessee. Let's see how that changes if we leave... a link to the quiz... right... here.

The latest poll numbers, from NBC and the Wall Street Journal, are in: 55% of Americans say "they favor allowing regulated businesses to sell marijuana." What's the holdup?

Take a moment to feel a tidal wave of gratitude wash over you as you reflect upon the fact that modern polling technology and statistical analysis techniques now allow us to pinpoint precisely how much People Don't Respect People Now Like They Did When I Was a Kid.

The past year brought seemingly endless revelations about the mind-blowing extent of the NSA's spying on all of us. Last week, the president finally gave a speech about reforming the NSA. Nobody listened to it.

Last year, the stock market rose to its all-time high, where it still sits. The S&P 500 index was up almost 30%—the best performance in decades. Still, most Americans view stocks as an inferior investment to magic beans.

"The American Dream" was a popular fairy tale of the latter half of the 20th century, featuring a plucky-but-average citizen triumphing over the circumstances of his birth in a golden-hued land of opportunity. Modern Americans seem almost embarrassed their forefathers ever embraced such a myth.

A new poll shows that college-age Americans are wildly, overwhelmingly worried about student loan debt. As well they should be. And they blame colleges. As well they should.

Clarification: The government shutdown did not make Nickelback more popular than Congress. (That poll is from January 8, 2013.) It did, however, help make Congress less liked than dog doo-doo. Very important distinction.

Here's one reason House Republicans are pushing for a short-term debt increase before next week's deadline: The GOP's popularity is at an all-time low while President Obama's is rising, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

Privilege: so sweet to have. But even sweeter to not have. Privilege has its benefits, but the lack of privilege confers that sweet, sweet moral superiority. With that in mind, we have decided to determine who, exactly, has the least privilege of all.

In a new poll, the vast majority of Americans say that in the five years since the recession, the government has "done not much or nothing at all to help poor people [and] middle-class people." Guess what? They're right!

Not long ago, Barack Obama opined, for some reason, that law school should be two years rather than three. Law schools disagree! Law professors disagree! Who does agree? Actual law school graduates.

We're getting close to the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, which is, hell, as good a time as any to reflect on how racist we still are. Are we really, though? We are!

In a new survey from Poynter, 57% of actual media professionals say that a journalism school degree is very or extremely important for "understanding the values of journalism." But 96% of J-school teachers say that it is. This is all you need to know about J-school.

There is good news and bad news here in post-racial America, the land in which nobody sees color, until it's time to shoot. The good news is that young people— who are The Future— are really embracing integration. The bad news? As usual, old white people.

Here in America, the land of They Hate Our Freedoms, we don't tolerate racism or discrimination of any sort, as long as you don't look too many pages back in the history book. But you know who's really racist? People of every other race but mine.