Sometimes life is so, so sweet. I couldn’t have woken up to a brighter start to my day.

I didn’t wake up to it… I stayed awake until most of the results were in. Well, it helps that I’m on the West coast. But, it didn’t help that my kid woke me up at 5AM. :-(

I’m pretty pissed at proposal 2 passing. I had to listen to my racist, hate mongering father talk about how you should vote yes cause the ‘spics’ and ‘niggers’ keep the rest of us from getting jobs. Hell, the guy thinks that I couldn’t get into the graduate school I wanted because they gave my place to some Mexican instead of his bullshit being what cost me my graduate school funding.

That’s Virginia, not Vermont.  Good ol’ Bernie Sanders won pretty easily in Vermont.

Prop 2 was interesting, and I am curious as to why it didn’t pass.

I attended MSU for a year, and I had heard stories about that AA thing going both ways in the news and around campus. There were alot of angry parents saying “Our kids are better qualified, and you just up and GAVE the spot to someone less qualified just because they happen to be African-American/Asian/Native American/etc, etc.?”

And then there were alot of minority students who were trying to get in but couldn’t, due to the deluge of white kids who appeared to be give preferential treatment (and in some cases were, due to some bad apples in the school admissions office), so they were filing petitions and law suits.

Now granted, this was back in like 1995, so I don’t know how the situation has been since then.
I just try to remember, some people view affirmative action as reverse racism/discrimination.

Personally, I think whomever is proven most qualified academically should get the spots, period, but that is my opinion, grain of salt, etc.

Disclaimer - I am of Native American/Welsh (father’s side), German/Irish (mother’s side) heritage and have an African-American uncle, so I’ve dealt with a lot of issues when I was growing up because of my skin tone, dark eyes and straight black hair. Now that I am an adult, not so much, although sometimes I do get the odd stare (especially during the summer when the red tones shine in my hair and my skin gets kind of dark).
My wife loves it all though

Rick Santorum is out

he came ‘out’ too?  oh, he’s out of the office, not the closet.  thank gawd.  he is such a bigoted ass wipe.

No more Santorum?

American politics just got a whole lot less funny.