After ten days of suspension due to hurricane flooding, as of this afternoon New Yorkers may once again travel the L Train between Brooklyn and Manhattan.  The next flood will merely be one of skinny jeans and trucker hats.

Twitter’s meme for today. Lots more at the link.

Jared Loughner, the man who shot Rep. Gabby Giffords in the head and killed six others, was sentenced in Arizona today. The facts in the case were never in doubt. Loughner was the only suspect. The key issue focused on whether he would avoid the death penalty because of his mental health. After the shooting, Loughner was diagnosed with schizophrenia …

With appearances by Maggie Gallagher, Harry Jackson, and Tony Perkins. All this clip needs is a sad trombone every few seconds.

“Before I say anything else—before I say what I dragged myself out of bed to say—let me say this: we did this. LGBT people came out, fought back, and changed the world. There’s a fuck of a lot left to do—repealing DOMA, passing ENDA, completing the repeal of DADT (trans people are still barred from serving in the military), fighting …

As I noted many times here in the last year, leading the wingnut charge that all the polls were faked, fixed, or outright wrong, was Breitbart.  Lamestream media collusion! Romney landslide! 330 electoral votes!  Today Breitbart editor John Nolte apologized.  Mea culpa. We were dead wrong about the polls. Not only did the Real Clear Politics poll of polls end …

“The gay lobby overwhelmingly outspent the pro-family forces in Minnesota, Maryland, Maine and Washington. Results are not final in Washington and we will continue to look at the results but it is looking like temporary setbacks for traditional marriage in four liberal states. Overwhelming majorities still support marriage in most states and if you add up the numbers, its a …

(Tipped by JMG reader Seth)

“Tuesday was a devastating day for pro-family advocates concerned about the advance of same-sex ‘marriage’ and homosexual activism. While politics does not decide moral and spiritual Truth, it is an indicator of the heart of our nation. On Nov. 6, America took another giant step away from God and our Judeo-Christian heritage.  No longer can pro-family advocates say that homosexual …

Last night’s snowstorm took out more trees on the Upper East Side than the hurricane did. There’s a chorus of chainsaws echoing up and down my block. We only got a few inches of snow and most of it’s gone already.

If you missed the triumphant first fifteen minutes of last night’s Rachel Maddow Show, do yourself a favor. “I’ll give you a minute to hit pause on your DVR to go make some popcorn.”

“November 6th was a disappointing day for marriage, as the effort to preserve the unique meaning of marriage in the law lost by only a narrow margin in four states, even though vastly outspent by those who promote the redefinition of marriage. No matter what policy, law or judicial decision is put into place, marriage is the only institution that …

“It’s not a traditional America anymore. And there are 50 percent of the voting public who want STUFF. They want THINGS. And who is going to give them things? President Obama. He knows it and he ran on it. Whereby 20 years ago, President Obama would have been roundly defeated by an establishment candidate like Mitt Romney. The voters, many …

“The event we have just witnessed was far more than a general election – it was a referendum on the soul of America.  We grieve today like we have lost a friend or a close relative. Millions of Americans looked evil in the eye and adopted it. Some Christian observers called the Democratic Party platform for 2012 a ‘Romans 1 …

“This was supposed to be the morning when Americans got up and shook off the nightmare of the last four years. Instead, they awakened to a new one: a profound drubbing of the Republican Party that is supposed to be the guardian of the conservative vision our nation so desperately needs. On every level–presidential, congressional, social–it was a bruising day …

“It’s official, the 2012 presidential election is over and we Americans decided not to downshift into Republican. Instead its now full speed ahead toward the progressive’s Godless Utopian fantasy (aka “the cliff”) with Mr. Obama and the Evil Party. The good news is that we can all stop pretending that Mitt Romney is a conservative. The bad news is that …

“If Mitt Romney cannot win in this economy, then the tipping point has been reached. We have more takers than makers and it’s over. There is no hope.  Mitt Romney was the president we needed right now, and I think it is so sad that we are going to be deprived of his brain power, of his skills in turning …

“No, you cannot have your country back. America is moving forward. That’s the message voters sent the Republican Party and its Tea Party wing Tuesday night when they re-elected President Obama and strengthened the Democrats’ control of the Senate. No amount of outside money or voter suppression or fear mongering or lying — and there was a ton of each …

Matt Stopera reports at Buzzfeed: “Keesha Patterson of Ft. Washington, Maryland, proposed to her girlfriend, Rowan Ha, during the election night victory rally at President Barack Obama’s headquarters in Chicago. Maryland voted in favor of gay marriage last night.” The best part is the onlookers.  (Via Zack Ford @Think Progress)

One the bigger stories that I missed on Tuesday: A slim majority of Puerto Ricans voted Tuesday to approve a nonbinding referendum that would make the island the 51st U.S. state. The measure requires final approval from Congress, so it means little for Puerto Rico right now. Still, nearly 54 percent of Puerto Ricans voted for a change in the …