Biden: Gay-OK. Photo via Yahoo.

Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday that same-sex marriage is totally cool with him.

This is a bold-ish statement coming from someone so high up in an administration that is officially and, let’s be real, somewhat deceptively on the fence when it comes to this issue.

“I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women marrying one another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties,” Mr. Biden said, while noting that the president, not he, sets policy on such matters.

The administration may be “scrambling,” as the Times puts it, but both David Axelrod and a spokesman for Biden have come out saying, basically: What Joe said? Yeah, so, even though it sounds like something we wouldn’t want him to say, it’s totally what we’ve been saying except with different words and an entirely different set of meanings and implications. So, yeah. Forward!

Funny enough, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said this morning that he also supports same-sex marriage.

“How about we start asking if there is anyone in the Obama administration who supports protecting traditional marriage?” asks Kathryn Jean Lopez on National Review Online.

No matter what your position is on the issue, it would seem at this point that we’re entitled to do just that.

At least one figure in the Obama administration has signaled to the press his resolute opposition to same-sex marriage, however. In an exclusive interview with The Retriever Weekly, Bo Obama reiterated his position that “if two men are allowed to get married, the next logical step is for a man and a dog to get married — and then maybe for a man to eat a dog.” He continued, “And I don’t want that. That’s not the America I know. Ruff.”

cyclingbum:

We co-hosted our final “Root Beer Float Social” of the semester today with SEB. At 4:00 pm there was already quite the line. At 4:30 pm, we were almost out of ice-cream. It is, undoubtedly, our single most well-attended event outside of the GSA Socials. Retrievers are serious about their RB Floats!

Though I was witness to someone who didn’t know what root beer was …

The HHS Office of Biotechnology Activities (OBA) recently posted a new Policy for Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern; a copy of the policy is found at http://oba.od.nih.gov/oba/biosecurity/PDF/United_States_Government_Policy_for_Oversight_of_DURC_FINAL_version_032812.pdf.