And one more election related thing...

Out there in California (say it like the Governator does... come on...) the voters passed Proposition 8, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. In so doing, it deprives gay people a basic right enjoyed by heterosexual people, namely the right to get married.

Will somebody please explain to me how "The Institution of Marriage" is threatened by gay people wanting to get in on it? Look, Mr. & Mrs. Hetero Redneck, your marriage sucks because you're stupid and because you procreated when you shouldn't have, not because of a bunch of gay people getting married somewhere. Get over it. But maybe there's some semantic argument that I don't understand.

The closest I've been able to get to understanding this asinine situation is something like this: When I got my Masters Degree I was proud of it. But then I thought, "You know, that girl Elizabeth also got a Master's Degree from the same program. She's an idiot. I wonder if that cheapens my own degree?" And for a moment I was sad. But then I realized that the world will quickly figure out that Elizabeth is dumb and it will take care of itself. She'll get elected governor of Alaska or something. Anyway, I decided that my degree, and along with it my own personality and intelligence, stands on its own. Just because an idiot has the same degree I have doesn't make me an idiot. So I stopped worrying. Hetero rednecks should stop worrying. Gay people getting married doesn't make anybody else gay or cheapen anybody else's marriage.  Everybody is free to either succeed or fail in whatever they try and it'll all work out.

Keith Olberman doesn't like Prop 8 either...