political. depressing.

[jinian]

"The day after the election I forced myself to confront reality: millions of Americans have more contempt for gay marriage than they have for Abu Ghraib. It doesn't matter that the candidates had similar positions on the first issue and never debated the second. It was the perception of their positions that made all the difference, and for the majority of the country the Bill of Rights and the Geneva Conventions just didn't make the "values" cut." (Releasing the Hounds by Laura Fokkena, via pleonastic. Wish I had more to say about this, but "I remain very unhappy; read what she says" is about the size of it.)