Day: December 21, 2011

It's a time-honored tradition at Navy homecomings that a lucky sailor is chosen from the crew to be first off the ship for the long-awaited kiss with a loved one. On Wednesday, for the first time ever, the happily reunited couple was gay. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, after Gaeta's ship returned from 80 days at sea.

At the same time Tom Carper was the supposed Public Option champion in the Senate, he was telling hedge fund investors that, no worries, he would kill it, so invest in private companies.

I've never taken acid or tried to put on full-blown clown make-up using a fun house mirror. If I did, it would probably feel like reading the comments over at Red State.

The New York Post reports that former Vice President Dick Cheney was seen at a party recently using an oxygen mask to aid his breathing.

The Gingrich collapse is not the same as the Perry, Cain and Bachmann collapse. Indeed, it already looks like he is rebounding.

"They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards – before the 1960s and 1970s, and the Environmental Protection Act, Medicare, and Medicaid; before the New Deal, and its provision for Social Security, unemployment insurance, the forty-hour workweek, and official recognition of trade unions; even before the Progressive Era, and the first national income tax, antitrust laws, and Federal Reserve."

If you’re a gay American, don’t vote for Newt Gingrich. That’s not a Democratic talking point — that’s reportedly what Newt himself said to a gay man in Iowa Tuesday.