Gay Marriage
November 20 at 6:00PM
* Perhaps taking a cue from her most rogueish guest, Oprah Winfrey has decided she will no longer be shackled behind her talk show.
* The Senate takes up its version of the health care bill tomorrow morning. Harry Reid needs 60 votes just to proceed with debate, because the Republicans do not want to deal with this thing at all. If they filibuster, let us hope they forgo the phonebooks and pledge allegiance to the flag for twelve hours straight. (Eat your heart out, Todd Akin!)
* Said health care bill is 2,074 pages long. Tony Perkins and his fightin' evangelicals have released something called "The Manhattan Declaration," which manages to cover "the sanctity of life, traditional marriage and religious liberty" in just 4,700 words.
* President Obama will make a decision about Afghanistan troop levels after Thanksgiving, assuming he's not in a food coma.
November 17 at 11:11AM
We knew this was going to happen. We were warned. Gay rights opponents have all along told us that treating gays like normal people was a slippery slope, and they were right. No sooner have we started to tolerate people living the gay lifestyle, now they want to die the gay lifestyle. It's like they say, you give the gays an inch, they ask for basic human dignity!
The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.
November 12 at 2:56PM
 If you've got a working Internet connection, then by now you've almost certainly heard the news that Carrie Prejean — defrocked Miss California and advocate for anti-gay prejudice — is an asshole.
But, did you know that she is also an asshole?
Carrie Prejean has been a hot topic this week after it was revealed that she made multiple sex tapes for her ex-boyfriend. Now we are hearing from the ex-boyfriend and the plot thickens. He says she was 20-years-old when she recorded the sexually graphic cellphone videos and sent them to him for his reaction…
After the sex tape scandal broke, it didn't take Prejean long to call the ex-boyfriend. He said that she was furious and asked him to lie and say that she was 17-years-old at the time they were created.
Ugh! What is wrong with this stopwatch? It's been stuck at 14 minutes for too long now. Get to 15! Get to 15 already!
November 4 at 6:20PM
 How long has it been since your computer monitor had a good punching? Why do you ask? Oh, no reason. Just wondering.
On a completely unrelated note…
"We went up against tremendous odds," Marc Mutty, public affairs director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland who has been on loan to the campaign, said from Portland.
"We all know we were the little guy going up against the big guy, but we prevailed. We prevailed because the people of Maine — the silent majority — the folks back home spoke with their votes."
Those plucky underdogs on loan from the Catholic Church really pulled it off, didn't they? Yay, Catholics! I can't believe they somehow managed to do it with only the worldwide multi-billion dollar religious organization behind them. It's always nice when the little guy wins, isn't it? Real Revenge of the Nerds situation going on there.
And this time, Big Gay didn't know what hit it! Haha! Those stuffed shirt homosexuals wanting to protect their families and keep their basic human rights really took one on the chin for the first time ever.
(via Dan Savage)
November 4 at 11:06AM
 Yesterday the nation watched as Maine voted on a controversial referendum measure that could make their fellow citizens' lives better and easier without infringing on anyone else's rights or freedom.
And this morning, good news. The fair-minded folks up north stayed true to the state's "live and let live" ethos by a strong margin…
A referendum to expand Maine's medical marijuana law won handily on Election Day. With 86 percent of the precincts reporting, the measure was ahead 58 percent to 41 percent, the Bangor Daily News reported Wednesday.
The measure eases access to marijuana for individuals with certain medical conditions by expanding the list of qualifying conditions, creates a state-regulated registry of qualified users and allows for a statewide system of storefront distribution centers.
"This confirms what our polling has told us all along," said Jonathan Leavitt, campaign manager of Maine Citizens for Patient Rights. "The credibility of this issue is so strong, we didn't need to convince anyone that this was the right thing to do."
Exactly! Can you imagine how ridiculous it would be if the pro-marijuana campaign in Maine had to raise millions of dollars, develop TV ads, hire professional polling companies, organize armies of volunteers, knock on thousands of doors and log thousands of hours in phone banks just to convince other Mainers that it's okay for the state to get patients baked on the good stuff if it maybe takes the edge off their pain?
I mean, can you even imagine?
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