You can thank the framers of the Washington Constitution for that. When a new law is pushed to the ballot as a referendum, whether by petition (as is usually the case) or by legislative action, the text of the measure is the law as it was passed and the only choice is yes or no to allow the law to go into effect. The ballot title and summary must accurately reflect the law, which is why this went to court: the Republican Secretary of State, Sam Reed, originally assigned biased and inaccurate language as the title and summary.

One should only speak good of the dead. (The rest, I leave as an exercise for the reader.)

I am sorely tempted to use the same language that he used when Senator Ted Kennedy passed. I would like to think, though, that I am a much better human being than that.

I know I’m being overly optimistic, but I have a fantasy: the court will rule in favor of equality and issue an “implement immediately” order (rather than stay for further appeals), rendering the whole discussion in Washington State irrelevant.

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to express genuine fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for a parody. – The inverse of Poe’s Law.

Here is a law we need in Washington State: any person listed as an officer or official contact person of any organization that refuses to comply with Washington’s public disclosure laws is guilty of election tampering, defined as a Class C felony.

I may even put that forth as an initiative.

I believe the correct term is “projection.” That is when you have deep-seated desires, fear them, and project those desires on to others so that you can do to them what you cannot do to yourself.

Remember, LaBarbera made a habit for YEARS of attending the annual International Men in Leather convention in Chicago, in “disguise” to “gather research” that he would publish piecemeal on his website over the next year until he could get fresh material. The man is a genuine, certifiable closet case.

Gingrich’s comments were his “Let them eat cake” moment, completley lacking in any kind of compassion or understanding. Kudos to the pastors who speak out on behalf of the poor and vulnerable.

Regarding Mitten’s tax returns: before 2010, you start to run into the massive Mormon funding for Prop h8 in California. I half expect he is under orders from the First Presidency not to disclose just how much of his personal wealth went into the imposition of theocratic hate.

Abraham had children by two women; Jacob by four (only two of which were his wives.) In fact, men in the Bible almost always had multiple women with whom they could have legitimate offspring, monogamy was very much the exception.

If you are practicing safe sex, there should never be any C.U.M. in your Santorum.

Believe it or not, my mommy potty trained me.

I was bragging about Murray and Pedersen, not complaining :-)

Nonetheless, they have a proven track record of funding regressively conservative politicians and causes. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and has feathers like a duck, calling it a horse does mean it’s a horse.

Contacting my Olympia delegation won’t do any good. I live in the 43rd District, and my senator, Ed Murray, and one of my representatives, Jamie Pedersen, are sponsors of the bill. My other representative, Frank Chopp, just tells constituents to go away and bother someone else: he’s Speaker of the House and is too busy to deal with actual voters.

Re. the Caterpillar story: It is a sad state of affairs when companies seeking to cut costs relocate to the US.

Just doing my part in keeping Santorum‘s little “Google problem” a problem :-)

I would recommend passing on the popcorn: between the idiocy of Hutcherson and the hilarity of Savage’s responses you be gasping for breath, and popcorn would be a dangerous choking hazard.

So… the Santorum is spreading?