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If you’ve been anywhere near a computer you know that yesterday President Obama went on record as personally in support of gay marriage. 

While I can report that my own social networks more or less exploded with celebration—this jubilation was not shared by either log cabin republicans or folks like RNC chair, Reince Priebus. While the former have a point, the announcement did take away a little of the sting of North Carolina voters passing a state constitutional amendment to define marriage as solely between a man and a woman.

Among my social network, at least one current resident of North Carolina pointed out that the student heavy triangle counties were among those that did not pass the amendment, further evidence that equality may only be a matter of time (although I’ll assert that it cannot come fast enough), and that pockets of tolerance exist everywhere. 

Cheers to that. Follow the celebration and backlash and further state developments with the Same-Sex Marriage Trap. 

-Laura

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A couple of takeaways from perusing the Secret Service Inquiry trap. First, if you are going to hire prostitutes on a work trip to Colombia where you are charged with protecting the US President and you don’t want to get caught, pay the ladies what they ask. Second, the secret service does have lady service members and these women are reportedly very useful when Michelle Obama needs to pee (fair enough). Third, call me cynical, but I have a very hard time believing anyone finds these allegations hard to believe.  

So as charges grow to include drugs, folks get fired, and Romney tells us all what he’d do about it, remember that studies suggest that power may increase promiscuity and the list of federal political sex scandals in the US is not a short one. So while I won’t make excuses, I’m not going to act shocked at the behavior of the Secret Service. At least they’re keeping a close eye on Ted Nugent.

-Laura