Opposition to gay marriage has hit a new low among Americans, weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support for it, according to a new poll Wednesday. [Politico] The Environmental Protection Agency has concerns about the environmental impact of a 218-acre coal ash landfill in Trimble County proposed by Louisville Gas and Electric. [WFPL] Way [...]

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Ooooh, lawwwd. It is election day and you should listen to this hilarity from some man of “jesus” (after tens and tens of you cast your votes, of course): “I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers,” he says in his sermon, delivered on May 13. “Build a great, big, [...]

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Larry Dale Keeling seems to think Jack Conway is playing pat-a-cake with Richie Farmer and he rightly thinks this tax reform commission is as silly as the rest of us. [H-L] Chris Christie and some other bloated white men love to claim Barack Obama is the least experience president ever. Apparently, they’ve never heard of [...]

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The Kentucky Supreme Court this week unanimously voted to re-elect Chief Justice John Minton to the top judicial position for another four years. [Ryan Alessi] Robert Wilcher, one of two Kentucky Retirement Systems board members representing county employees, resigned today. The board gets to appoint someone to fill his term. [Deep KRS Shenanigans] From the [...]

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So… it looks like the mouth-breathers are the folks who have babies at younger ages and give them crazy names. [NPR] Lexington is in full panic mode over a homeless shelter. It’s all the typical hoopla. [H-L] Karl Rove and the teabaggers may suddenly have to disclose their fancy donors. And you know Republicans don’t [...]

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The Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati has a program in which homeowners and renters who were displaced or who suffered damage to their primary homes might be eligible for grants of as much as $20,000 toward the purchase, construction or repair of a home. [H-L] What was that, again, about us being the only [...]

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Jack Conway’s failed U.S. Senate campaign is suing the Federal Elections Commission for fining him over a late campaign finance report. Conway says he sent the report but the FEC says it didn’t receive it. They’re completely melting down over the $4,950 fine. [FOX41] Aww, Michele Beard Bachmann decided to flip-flop and withdrew her Swiss [...]

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Lawwwd, you can’t even trust the sheriff’s office in Lexington not to steal guns! Three employees with the Office of the Fayette County Sheriff have been charged in a case that involves confiscated guns that were pawned. [H-L] Game over for the climate? Like you even need to ask or answer that question. [NYT] The [...]

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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China gets the nod to take over a US bank, the first such US approval for a Chinese firm. [BBC] Makers of flame retardants manipulate research findings to back their products and downplay health risks. [Chicago Tribune] Colin Powell says that Dubya didn’t bother consulting his national security council on [...]

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In about ten seconds, the mouth-breathers of the world are going to freak completely out because the gays have money and they make political contributions. [Wonkette] Despite his 2008 call to “let Detroit go bankrupt,” presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Monday that he would “take a lot of credit” for his impact on [...]

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