CONN COURT APPROVES GAY MARRIAGE! "The Connecticut Supreme Court today ruled that denying marriage rights to same-sex couples is unconstitutional. Connecticut is now poised to become the nation’s third state to allow same-sex marriage, joining California and Massachusetts. 'Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same sex partner of their choice,' the ruling says. 'To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others.'"

The two most e-mailed stories on the New York Times Web site today are both about chocolate chip cookies. The third is a mostly borrowed piece about how it's hard to find someone to marry.

Oh, and in at number seven is a two-page piece about how some residents of Greenwich, Connecticut, the 56th wealthiest community in America, are mad about the town's new Wiffle ball field.