Huffington post slideshow of reactions to the election from around the world.

The misconception that Domestic Partnerships provide the same rights as Marriage is a big problem all over the country.

Just as I think the pro-choice supporters should frame their arguement in terms of what a country will look like when every women who becomes pregnant is forced by law to carry a child to term, supporters of equal marriage rights need to show the gaps in Domestic Partnership law.

Tommy, that is great to read. I was all smiles this morning and a bit let down that no one on the street seemed to be envigorated like me. I was bouncy on the subway and wanted to give people hi-fives and say "We did It!", but everyone looked the same as every other day: tired, stonefaced, emotionless.

Andrew Sullivan said that African Americans in CA, as a group, voted overwhelmingly for Prop 8, the only group to do so. Occasionally he brings up homophobia in the Black community, which is basically religiously motivated.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is black:

Still on a gut, emotional level, this makes me sick. If someone wants to give me a reason why gay people shouldn't be able to marry that doesn't, at its root, boil down to "yuck," I guess I'd love to hear it. But really that isn't the point. I've always maintained that you don't have to like black people to do the right thing. Same thing here. I'm not very interested in folks's homophobia. I'm interested in why they think they should be in the business of dictating terms of love to two consenting adults. It's disgusting. And we need to let this shit go. There may be great, sound reasons beyond--the blacks are pathological!!--to explain this. But there are no great, sound reasons that excuse it. Cut this shit out. We know better. Even if other people didn't.

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I was bouncy on the subway and wanted to give people hi-fives and say "We did It!", but everyone looked the same as every other day: tired, stonefaced, emotionless.

I'd say maybe 1/4th of the people on my train looked more enthusiastic and happy than normal. I was tempted to try to start up an Obama cheer, to see how many responded....

I was extra tired! But happy inside my head.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is black:

That was cool.

I was bouncy on the subway and wanted to give people hi-fives and say "We did It!", but everyone looked the same as every other day: tired, stonefaced, emotionless.

Last night people were hugging each other on the street, according to my co-worker who was watching the returns at Rockefeller Center. I think this morning we were all too hungover from celebrating to be properly bouncy.

So - opinions on this dress? On the undies underneath?

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