Good Job California!!

From the US District Court for the Northern District of California:

"Plaintiffs have demonstrated by overwhelming evidence that Proposition 8 violates their due process and equal protection rights and that they will continue to suffer these constitutional violations until state officials cease enforcement of Proposition 8. California is able to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, as it has already issued 18,000 marriage licenses to same-sex couples and has not suffered any demonstrated harm as a result,see FF 64-66; moreover, California officials have chosen not to defend Proposition 8 in these proceedings.

Because Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, the court orders entry of judgment permanently enjoining its enforcement; prohibiting the official defendants from applying or enforcing Proposition 8 and directing the official defendants that all persons under their control or supervision shall not apply or enforce Proposition 8. The clerk is DIRECTED to enter judgment without bond in favor of plaintiffs and plaintiff-intervenors and against defendants and defendant-intervenors pursuant to FRCP 58.

IT IS SO ORDERED."

Cake Day

A few things about this clip, and the idea of Hillary/Obama/Edwards on Stephen Colbert on Thursday night (yes, I know I'm a few days late - I've been busy drinking!).

• Hillary needs to stop trying to be personable and funny. She's not, and that's fine because she comes with Bill, who clearly is. I hear he never forgets a name. Like, 10 years later. Amazing.
• Obama's funny. And, yes, manufactured political distractions SHOULD be placed on notice.
• Why is Edwards out of the race? I keep forgetting because I love him so much! He's very smart, pretty cute (if you ignore the almost-Donald-Trump hair), smiles with his eyes, he's a lawyer (yea us!!), he's got an accent, and a pretty great sense of humor. It's about time we had a president that I could laugh with, and not at. Right?
  
• Why did I stop tivoing the Colbert Report? Time to throw it back in the rotation, especially now that it's election season. How am I going to form my political opinions if Colbert (oh, and Jon Stewart) don't tell me what to think?
• Word of the day: truthiness.
  

Drinks with the president?

I'm not about to start espousing my political views on this site (well, not yet, anyway) but I was doing some online reading about tonight's debate. Well, I think it was tonight's debate; I didn't watch it because America's Next Top Model was on. Anyway, apparently this weekend Hillary had a shot of whiskey in some midwest farm town "bar." This prompted a college student at the debate to ask McCain:

"I was wondering if you think that she's finally resorted to hitting the sauce just because of some unfavorable polling. And I was also wondering if you would care to join me for a shot after this?"

A couple things to mention:

• Who says, "hitting the sauce"? The kind of college student that would attend a debate? I don't know, I didn't realize my dad was writing questions.
• Maybe it's the same person who thinks that drinking with McCain would be fun. Does he look like a fun guy to party with? Um, no. He's old. Old people are not fun (and to quote myself from work today, they can't type or use computers either).
• I'd ask Hillary to drink because I'd hope she'd bring Bill with her. And you know that he'd be a good time in a bar.
• Now I want a drink. Sigh.