Teddy Partridge

CNN staffers Gloria Borger and Kevin Bohn put together a novel report about a topic of grave national security, so important that sources would only speak after being granted anonymity for their quotes about the topic. The secret topic? Mitt Romney may be about to fail.

Louisville Archbishop Joseph Kurtz has the outdoor wedding industry in his sights: Catholics need to marry under the roof of a church.

There’s a big debate over showing this video. Does it give Andrew Breitbart more desired exposure? Or does it expose his antics to a wider audience, thus discrediting him with the general public and cable television producers?

My favorite part is the young woman’s voice at the very end: “I’ve never raped anybody!”

No two major media outlets agree on GOP delegate counts, although almost all have the ranking the same: Rmoney, Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul. The exception being the most trusted name in news: CNN ranks the contenders Rmoney, Gingrich, Santorum, Paul.

The long-awaited Appeals Court ruling on the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 will be announced tomorrow.

Karen Handel, the Sarah Palin acolyte who appears bent on bringing-to-Gilead the Komen Foundation if she doesn’t ruin its reputation first, is not simply opposed to Planned Parenthood and its “babykilling” practices. She’s the whole Palin package: she opposes marriage equality, and she opposes adoption by same-sex couples, too. All dressed up in a campaign for ethical reform of government by the ‘good ole boys.’

A panel of the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled today, unanimously, that the videos made during the Perry v Schwarzenegger trial by then-Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the proceedings in his courtroom and ordered released by his successor, Chief Judge James Ware, will remain sealed and not viewable by the public, in order to “preserve the integrity of the judicial process.”

Whatever that means.

The dog is long gone, and we’ll probably never know how, where, or when Seamus passed to that Rainbow Bridge. But I bet Seamus isn’t waiting patiently there for Mitt.

These are some awkward old humor-challenged white guys, and I know what awkward old humor-challenged white guys sound like.

I mean, is this funny?

A LGBT staff activist at Aeroflot, Russia’s largest airline, Maxim Kupreev, was forced by his employer to enter into a sham marriage to a woman, requiring her to divorce her own husband to do so. Russian activists are calling for airline passengers to make alternative arrangements and boycott Aeroflot for its disturbing violation of employee human rights.