The Dish

Lucianne’s readership can’t get enough.

And so the relevant regulation is not AR-670-1 but MCO P1020.34, "Marine Corps Uniform Regulations." The gist is the same, as Pace himself has acknowledged. He shouldn’t be speaking about his own, personal moral views in uniform in his official capacity. Period.

Dan Savage lets the unfunny NPR bore have it. And rightly so. (I’m with Homer Simpson on Garrison Keillor.) For some reason, the culture is full these days with people coming out of the closet as gays, and also people coming out of the closet as homophobes. Progress, I guess.

More Republican doublespeak on the U.S. Attorneys scandal. They really do need to get their talking points aligned.

Physicist Professor Stephen Hawking speaks at Zellerbach Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus March 13, 2007 in Berkeley, California. Hawking delivered the annual J. Robert Oppenheimer Lecture in Physics to a sold out crowd. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

When you have such enthusiastic and creative support for free, supporters will make their own ads for you – and put them on YouTube. Obama really does feel like the next generation’s candidate, doesn’t he?.

Romney gets it from a major pro-lifer.

My latest in the Harris-Sullivan blogalogue can be read here.

Senator Clinton is asked directly what her view is on the matter by Jake Tapper. Is homosexuality immoral, he asks her. Her response:

"Well I’m going to leave that to others to conclude. I’m very proud of the gays and lesbians I know who perform work that is essential to our country, who want to serve their country and I want to make sure they can."

The woman who addressed the Human Rights Campaign and will receive as much money as they can funnel to her, won’t say whether she believes homosexuality is moral or not. One word: pathetic. But how predictable.

Chris Shays has an excellent bill on the matter I raised earlier today, brought to my attention buy Matthew Scully, whose superbly reasoned book, "Dominion," helped shift my views on the subject decisively. The Farm Animal Stewardship Purchasing Act wouldn’t regulate all of private agriculture, but it would set standards for any farm trying to sell meat to the federal government. Humane treatment would be defined as:

Adequate shelter that allows animals to stand up, lie down and extend their limbs without touching any part of their enclosure.

Daily access to food and water sufficient to maintain the animal’s health.

Adequate veterinary care, including prompt treatment of injuries or euthanasia for a sick or injured animal.

These modest standards mean that federal suppliers cannot engage in the most inhumane current industrial farming practices – intensive confinement in battery cages, gestation or veal crates, forced molting of laying hens through starvation, forced feeding for foie gras, hauling of downed animals to slaughter or leaving sick or injured animals to languish without treatment or humane euthanasia.

It seems like a great first step to me.