Thursday, November 08, 2012

Hooray for the Home Team

Among the states considering gay-marriage measures this fall, Washington represented the best hope for breaking a 30-plus-state losing streak at the ballot box.
52 to 48


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The vote puts Washington and Colorado to the left of the Netherlands on marijuana law, and makes them the nexus of a new social experiment with uncertain consequences.
55 to 45

1 comment:

Pete said...

Very good! If the drug war ends, hopefully that will starve the prison-industrial complex. Now about those other wars ...

I seriously was considering writing in "Bradley Manning" but chickened out because I knew that I would feel guilty if Romney won. I'm not sure the choice was as stark as the rhetoric let on. Romney was definitely a war-mongering Plutocrat, no doubt.

I saw a funny clip of Bill O'Reilly going off script and balefully mourning loss of the "white establishment". (Link.)