What better way to drive hits than combine the words marijuana, gay marriage, legalize, and Cuba all into one headline? I've asked this before, but does the internet have a sweeps week?

The article is also just a list of assertions w/out any evidence/data backing it up. To conclude that these three issues will automatically break one way is a little far fetched. The national mood on weed and Cuba has ebbed and flowed for decades. Why does the author conclude today that the US will abandon "prohibition" of these ideas?

FTR, I support normalizing relations with Cuba, and wouldn't lose much sleep over legalizing marijuana or gay marriage on a national level. But that's just me. I think the author should back up his assertions with something other than his opinion.

Plus the headline says all these changes will occur "soon," though the article then explains "within 10 years." The way the headline is written, these items are a laundry list of the liberal agenda that crazy, crazy Obama is planning to implement in the coming years. As if conservatives are not riled up and paranoid enough as it is.

I agree that most of these changes are on the way. But to me, 10 years is not "soon," and it's doubtful that half of those things will occur within 10 years.

The rationale behind the assertions is in the fourth and fifth paragraphs. Unconvincing, maybe, but not nonexistent.

My gripe, however is with the silly and extraneous bit about the internet in paragraph 6. If the rise of the internet has anything to do with any of these changing societal attitudes I fail to see why based on what's presented. I feel like a high school writing teacher who just caught his student trying to fluff his paper with bullshit just to make the word-count.

Really. The internet?