t optimist

Looks like Prop 2 is going to pass. Yay!

t /optimist

I would like to see number of votes cast on the propositions. I have a suspicion that lots of people who got out to vote for President just did not vote on the propositions.

As sad as many of the prop votes make me, and they make me profoundly sad, I am encouraged that "life beginning at fertilization" did not pass, and that "banning abortions except in the most horrible of circumstances" did not pass. The two most emtionally divisive issues clearly, and the socially liberal viewpoint is not loosing both, at least not everywhere.

With a Democrat controlled Albany, I think we will see legislation for same-sex marriage in New York. With Democrats controlling Washington, I think some Justices will step down sooner rather than later so that appointments can be made to at least hold the current position. Sadly I do not think there will be a shift away from the 5-4 dead-lock anytime soon.

After seeing those White House pictures, I kind of wish I had gone over there last night. But I was exhausted -- I ended up falling asleep almost immediately after Obama's speech. Ahem. After President-elect Obama's speech.

Can you guys fight that in the courts?

I imagine there will be lots of fighting in courts as Prop 8 did not address what happens to those of us (approx. 14,000 couples if I'm remembering correctly) who got married while it was legal. Plus it was enough time (months) that couples may have bought property, gotten pregnant, all kinds of stuff that throws lots into legal limbo.

Okay, this picture disgusts me [link] Assholes.

Today's xkcd makes me laugh and laugh: [link] (note the alt-text).

MSNBC has called MO but not NC.

Good morning buffistas.

All that hate makes me want to cry. Putting that stuff in constitutions makes me want to cry. And I'm trying to remind myself that there have been such strides, and that heck, maybe in another generation we'll have a gay president! :) But in the meantime,

I feel like I did back when the ERA didn't pass and I thought to myself, wow, most of America truly thinks women don't deserve equal rights. As a girl (at that time), it was a humbling, humiliating experience. I sit here now and I can't shake the anger and the depression that most Californians think gays not only don't deserve equal rights, they deserve to have their rights taken away from them. It has created such a dark stain on last night's election.

NYTimes on what Bush is doing in his last 2 months. [link]

100% what Burrell said.