WELL, WE’RE HALFWAY THERE: So now that New York will have happily-maried gay couples, can we get started on letting them have the closets full of assault rifles?

UPDATE: Reader Dean Jackson is harshing my mellow: “Around April 15th next year, there’s gonna be a whole lot of couples in New York that are going to be pretty pissed when they find out they have to pay more taxes as a couple than they do as singles.” Well, I certainly pay a marriage penalty. But doesn’t DOMA mean that the IRS can’t recognize a gay marriage, so that they’ll still file separately? Which would be a sweet deal if I could get it . . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: “Note that it passed with Republican votes — and in a legislative chamber run by the GOP.”