Yay!

Currently, 51% oppose legalizing gay marriage, down from a recent high of 63% just two years ago in February of 2004. The percent who favor allowing gay marriage has increased from a low of 29% in August of that year to 39% today.

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The turnaround over the past two years is particularly distinct in the change among those who say they "strongly oppose" legalizing gay marriage. Just 28% take this position today, down from 42% in February of 2004, and the decline has been sharpest among seniors, Republicans and more moderate religious groups. Fully 58% of Americans age 65 and older strongly opposed gay marriage in 2004; only 33% are strongly opposed now. Two years ago 59% of Republicans strongly opposed gay marriage, while just 41% take this position today. And both white Catholics and non-evangelical Protestants are half as likely to strongly oppose gay marriage today as they were in 2004. Opposition remains strongest among white evangelical Protestants, 56% of whom strongly oppose legalizing gay marriage, down from 65% two years ago.

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Department of random:

Scruffly guy in an ALCATRAZ PSYCHO WARD t-shirt, accompanied by an extremely weary-looking teenage girl in a hospital gown, comes wandering down our hallway. "Pardon me," he says, "but could you help us? We're trying to find the room with all the chocolate milk and stuff." I am completely unable to help them, except to point out that they're in the university admin. wing heading toward the research labs, and whatever they're looking for is probably back in the other direction, somewhere on the actual hospital wing.

But now I'm completely obsessed with the thought that somewhere on our floor there's a secret chocolate milk room.

But now I'm completely obsessed with the thought that somewhere on our floor there's a secret chocolate milk room.

If you find it, don't tell the scruffy teenagers, whatever you do! Keep the chocolate milk for yourself.

Didn't you know that all University Administation buildings have a secret chocolate milk room?

That reminds me of my favorite Sealab 2021 line: "To the pudding vats!"

OMG, I wonder if we have a pudding room.

Currently, 51% oppose legalizing gay marriage, down from a recent high of 63% just two years ago in February of 2004.

I wonder if that number goes back up during the 2006 midterms. I'm positive that the Republicans will be pushing the admendment to outlaw gay marriage in time for the midterms.

Flashes on rude cartoon of Captain Kirk, bloated and dressed as the Michelin Man: "MORE PUDDING!"

The chocolate milk room reminds me of a scene from the Upright Citizens Brigade's show on Comedy Central:

Realtor: This is the Hot Chicks Room. The breakfast table's just over this way...
Wife: Excuse me? What was that room again?
Realtor: Oh, this is the Hot Chicks Room. It's filled with assorted hot chicks, who party in here 24 hours a day. But you'd be more interested in the kitchen.
Wife: You know what? We're not going to need a sexy chicks room.
Realtor: Well, actually it's a Hot Chicks Room.
Wife: Well, whatever it is, we don't need it.
Husband: You said the same thing about the microwave, and we use that darned thing all the time.
[to realtor]
Husband: So, a Hot Chicks Room, huh?
Realtor: Yeah. The previous owner installed the room in the 80's, and I'll be honest with you, some of the chicks aren't all that hot anymore. However, they are replacable.

Hatemongering bastards. FYI, the Nigerian Scam has gone UK...I just got a message from some guy claiming to be from Lloyd's of London about some money and yada yada. Poor bastard, looking to get money from *me* He's the simple-minded nephew of the crime syndicate, huh? Drives the short getaway car.