Day: January 17, 2014
Utah Residents Evenly Split Over Gay Marriage
48% to 48%
Residents are now evenly split on whether same-sex couples in Utah should be allowed to get state-issued marriage licences — 48% for and 48% against — and 72% said same-sex couples should be allowed to form civil unions or domestic partnerships in lieu of marriage, according to a Salt Lake Tribune poll.
Word of the Day
Rom-denfreude (noun) — The pleasure Mitt Romney loyalists are taking in the struggles of Chris Christie. The condition is prevalent, stemming from a range of perceived Christie slights towards Romney during the 2012 campaign, which several Romney loyalists ticked off quickly — and with still-evident bitterness.
— Ken Vogel, on Politico.
Takes One to Know One
What an asshole.
— House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), quoted by Texas Monthly, after Rep. Steve King (R-IA) compared young undocumented immigrants to drug mules.
Enough Spying Already!
In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks fuss,
Obama says he wants a government we can trust.
‘Cause they only stopped one plot,
Yeah really, that’s all they got
For all those years the NSA was spying on us.
