Today in YAY, Part 2: Clerks’ offices in New York State are preparing for an anticipated surge in weddings, now that gay marriage is legal. “We are training our staff to be prepared for a very large number of people on the first day,” said Michael McSweeney, the New York City clerk.

In China: Activist Hu Jia, who has been imprisoned by the Chinese government since 2008, has been released, BBC reports.

Today in Squandered Potential: “Hactivist” group Lulzsec will disband after successfully hacking the CIA, Sony, Nintendo, and the Arizona Police Department.

For the Record… At Politico, Michele Bachmann would like you to know that she’s not a flake, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declares himself “huggable and loveable.” Huggable! I am not making this up.

Not Flaky at All! The LA Times reports that noted not-flake Bachmann has benefited personally from federal funds and federal farm subsidies, all while reciting odes to keeping government small.

Out of Syria: 1,000 Syrians fled to Lebanon last night after government forces fired on protesters across the country. 1,400 people have reportedly been killed in the government crackdown.

Outer Space Watch: An asteroid will be flying 7,500 miles above the earth’s surface tomorrow. It’s not going to hit anything, but you might want to get out the old telescope, because it will probably look pretty cool.

In North Carolina: A state of emergency has been declared in 29 counties, where wildfires have covered 50,000 acres.

Fun for the Whole Family? (Also, Poor Horses.) Four people were injured at Emerald Downs yesterday when a pair of horses broke free from their handler, and another had a panic attack at the start of a race.

(Maybe) Found! Federico Garcia Lorca’s burial site! By a historian from Granada. That’s your literary news for the day, and here’s a song about the Spanish Civil War. History can be fun! Good morning!

15 replies on “Morning News”

  2. Why are all the stories about Lulzsec talking about the “Arizona Police Department” or “Arizona State Police Department”? There’s no such organization. It’s the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

  3. Michele Bachmann wants to cut off the elderly, veterans, and children from federal aid and make gubermint smaller??? SHE TOOK HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS from federal programs!!! She’s a gubermint WHORE!!!

  5. On the topic of the discovery of Lorca’s grave, my introduction to him was seeing Ainadamar at the Santa Fe Opera a few years back (beautiful and powerful music, very well done, see it if you ever get a chance).

    His story’s a sad one but a courageous one too, and has bearing on leftists, artists and gays and lesbians, which pretty much covers most of the Stranger’s demographic pretty well.

  8. @3
    Who is the whore?! The Stranger staff makes their salaries off of these presidential hopefuls, other politicians, Rev Hutch. Vicious Cycle.
    You judge, criticize, blame — and you are due the same rightful treatment. Whore on Whore. Measly blog war. Sadness for the rest of time. Must suck to live with yourself as part of the media.

  10. @9

    You got me. I like to sometimes pretend being a parasite like The Stranger salaried-opinionists. Parasite is a preferable word to whore, no?

  11. @10 Oh, I see. When your friends do it ,it’s called capitalism, but when anyone else does it, it’s called parasite? If you were twice as smart you’d still be stupid.

  12. @10

    It’s a simple matter of proportion. Ms. Bachmann’s hypocrisy on this issue has likely netted her in the millions, as well as influencing & swaying millions of Americans into creating greater poverty for those around them at the profit of herself & her supporters.

    The Stranger’s hypocrisy is limited (as pointed out by Corydon, 5) to a certain demographic, the monetary profit is far below a million $, and while it’s voice extends out on the web, is still focused on a limited locality (Seattle/King Co.)

    So while you may be accurate, you are essentially comparing someone w/ a leaky oil pan to the Horizon oil spill. Sure, they’re both polluting the environment, but only a complete idiot would try to claim them equal.

    And that idiot would be you.

  15. #13 yeah… Lebanon. Lebanon is kinda safe in comparison I guess plus its not run by a royal family so they probably wont be rounded up and shipped back. Also since there is a rather large left wing in Lebanon and ALLOT of refugees there they can find some kind of temporary safety.

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