So what's going on in Seattle?
The Stranger has a feature on the last week or so of gay marriage activism here in Washington. There's a lawsuit under way now challenging Washington's anti-gay-marriage Defence of Marriage Act, on the grounds that the state constitution's equal-protection guarantees trump it. Stupid hicks are challenging Mayor Nickels' executive order extending marriage benefits to same-sex spouses of city employees. Apparently, it's mainly Christians working with a group out of Mississippi. This group, the American Family Association, fills its website with really amusingly silly religious language, and says that 'The American Family Association exists to motivate and equip citizens to change the culture to reflect Biblical truth.' Which is to say, they're silly assholes, and God will roast their stomachs in Hell, stuffed into the stomachs of donkeys which are in turn roasting in the stomachs of some larger beasts, possibly sperm whales, or the large (but not giant) squid that live at the bottom of Puget Sound. I know this because God speaks to me personally. God also tells me that His favourite colour is lavendar, and that Mel Gibson was the worst Hamlet He'd ever seen.
Someone tried to move the Sauk River. Secretly. Without anyone noticing.
It is claimed that, back in November, while a crew was removing a Trident SLBM (equipped with about 800 kilotons' worth of nuclear warhead) from the USS Georgia at Bangor here in the Puget Sound area, they whacked the missile into an access ladder and punched a nine-inch hole in its nose cone. Do you feel safe yet?
And that's all the news that's fit for me to summarise while eating.
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