When you ride the Metro to school for years, there are certain things about the system you learn. The first one is: The bathrooms are ALWAYS available for use, no matter what the station manager tells you. The second is: Never, ever, ever, ever lean on the doors, because those badboys just might open. I saw it plenty of times as a kid. And it happened again yesterday on the Red Line, The Post's Dana Hedgpeth reports. No injuries were reported, but I do wonder if the chimes rang first

I’ve never been more stressed in my life. I’m frantically searching for a full-time job while avoiding badgering (but well-intentioned) questions about my future. For the first time, I have absolutely no idea where I’ll be or what I’ll be doing in a month. My business friends were offered their $60,000-salary jobs last fall while we journalism students desperately shoot out résumé tapes and writing samples in response to every Internet ad and nervously drum our fingers waiting to hear whether our internships will land us an entry-level position with benefits.

A prominent rap star speaking out in solidarity with global acceptance is as big a cultural step forward as the leader of the free world making the same claim.

The financing situation for the Silver Line is beyond complicated. The counties involved and the state of Virginia as a whole are at loggerheads over who's going to pay for what and how labor will be distributed. Now, Gov. Robert McDonnell is trying to force the hand of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which controls the Dulles rail construction, to seat his appointments to the board. Some say he’ll withhold $150 million in funding if he doesn't get his way. Others call that idiotic.

Back in Miami, Royce’s tantrum in front of her dad continues. “Sometimes I just want a hug,” she says in between sobs. “You just don’t get it.” Her dad finally relents and hugs her. “Okay,” he says. I think he just wanted her to shut up.

But Wednesday, when President Obama announced that he supported the right of same-sex couples to marry and be treated as equal citizens under the law, he reminded me why I voted for him.