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A few weeks back Bill Maher did a rant about the US falling behind the rest of the world. Education, health care, infant mortality rate, etc. The gist of his rant was the US should quit declaring that we are the greatest country on earth and start acting like it. This is another measure of the rest of the world getting it and the US still living in the bible.

Posted by Mike in MO | November 14, 2006 11:05 AM
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I'm not sure a vacumn can explode, Dan.

Posted by JohnYawl | November 14, 2006 11:06 AM
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Vacuums implode.

I'm sure Hutch has long past developed the mental tools to enable him to absorb information about South Africa that conflicts with his world view. After all, I'm quite sure that back in apartheid days he was able to reconcile his support for the white regime with his own heritage; all black conservatives did. Sad, really.

Posted by Fnarf | November 14, 2006 11:10 AM
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Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful thing; allows one to ignore empirical data, laws of physics, logic, anything that conflicts with preconceived notions.

Posted by Geni | November 14, 2006 11:24 AM
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Can I get an amen?

Posted by him | November 14, 2006 11:29 AM
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Posted by sofia | November 14, 2006 11:29 AM
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I wonder if the sum total of gay weddings in other countries, made possible by the backlash against our country's retarded politics, has yet exceeded the total possible number of gay weddings as yet not legally recognized here in the USA. It sucks for the gays here who would like to get married but can't, but hey, being oppressed by the boot heel of funamentalism is apparently a great negative example for everyone else.

Posted by poo poo | November 14, 2006 11:29 AM
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Actually, Fnarf, Hutch once bragged that nothing made him feel better than pummeling a white person, back in his pigskin days. The man's history is *cough* quite interesting.

Posted by matthew fisher wilder | November 14, 2006 11:59 AM
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The post-Apartheid constitution of South Africa was one of the strongest in the world in protecting gay rights. Though the group wasn't huge, the anti-fascist politics of radical gay rights activists in pre-1990s South Africa also made them anti-apartheid. Their years of activism meant they were there/ well connected in the ANC when the constitution was written. This new marriage law is an expansion on their hard work.

Posted by wf | November 14, 2006 1:13 PM
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As a side note, former Anglican Archbishop of South Africa Desmond Tutu was instrumental in getting protections for gays into the new South African constitution AND supports same-sex marriage.

Posted by JenK | November 14, 2006 1:58 PM
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Just move to BC and get married. Then you can move back here and under NAFTA we have to recognize your marriage.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 14, 2006 2:15 PM
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Hutch can suck it, and here's why.........

Posted by matthew | November 14, 2006 2:40 PM
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Imagine an openly gay, HIV-positive Supreme Court Judge in the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Cameron

Posted by Richard | November 14, 2006 10:03 PM
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And in America we are the land of the Fee. (Just ask anyone paying off their credit.) Does the land of the free exist?

Posted by Ba'thani | November 16, 2006 2:31 PM

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