North Carolina, as crasy as South Carolina?

It's beginning to look that way.

Amendment One was puely a homophobic rebel yell from the antebellum, ante-Civil Rights woebegone right. I dare those proponents of that amendment to actually look at the history of marriage and actually education themselves. This glorious idea of the nuclear family is a very modern invention. More traditional would be selling off of daughters, but history lessons are for the intellectual elite who use reason as opposed to trusting the history that one's gut knows, right?

Anyway, I didn't think they could top Amendment One, but I was sorely mistaken. Now the glorious NC Senate has blocked a plan to provide reparations (scary word in the South!) to women that the state forcibly sterilized under their draconian eugenics laws. (NC was not alone in enacting and using sterilization laws. In fact, CA's laws were partially used by Hitler.)

It's just fucking heartless and wrong what the NC Senate did. I don't care which party has control, though it doesn't take much thought with one's brain or gut to figure it out. Go read. http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/06/20/2150266/nc-senate-rejects-plan-to-compensate.html

It's getting shameful out there.

Still old news

An epic failure of the free market: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/opinion/blow-plantations-prisons-and-profits.html?src=recg

Yawning: Let's do this! http://youtu.be/jGIbUK4nw00

The Texas injustice system personified: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/yes-america-we-have-executed-an-innocent-man/257106/?google_editors_picks=true

Old news

This is still bothering me for some reason. Maybe because I find the fawning over Brooks, so grotesque.

Many historians have looked at David Brooks' attempt at history and wonder what the fuck is he talking about. David, please just stick to your schtick or consult an historian. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/opinion/brooks-step-to-the-center.html?_r=1

In other news...

This history of GIFs: http://youtu.be/vuxKb5mxM8g

The color pink does not really exist! http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/07/does-the-color-pink-exist-scientists-arent-sure/