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Tuesday, 02 November 2004

Other stuff... not a lot of good news out there. Damn.

GOP is gaining roughly four seats in the house. Senate looks firmly in GOP control.

Seven states are banning gay marriage. Because that's so damned important to our society.

Florida will now require parental notification before minors can get an abortion. Which is really gonna help parental abuse victims a lot.

Incidentally, the two jackasses in robes who OK'd voter challenges in Ohio, favoring the GOP, are both nutjobs appointed by -- guess -- the GOP.

See, this whole separation-of-powers thing is fragile as hell. And the courts are already more than half-filled with ideologues willing to skew the process. If Bush gets to stick 3 right-wingers of his choosing on the Supreme Court, ratified by a GOP-controlled Congress...