The Sound of the Crowd

I’m taking it round the world

  1. “Speaking before an adoring audience of Utah Republicans last night, [Mass] Governor Mitt Romney drew a link between America’s prestige around the world and the legalization of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts.”

Yes, because that’s what’s hurt our prestige around the world. Gay marriage.

  1. Senators Boxer and Clinton are proposing a “Count Every Vote” act that appears to be almost ridiculously commonsensical.

  1. Meanwhile, I used to give people in Maine more credit than this, but I may have been allowing too much for Stephen King: One of their lawmakers is proposing a bill that, if the so-called “gay gene” is indeed discovered, will make it illegal to have fetuses that are found to have said gene aborted.


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