Clarissa Blag

Alabama voters on Tuesday [NB: Nov 2000!] repealed the state’s century-old ban against interracial marriage, an unenforceable but embarrassing throwback to the state’s segregationist past.
The vote was running 59 percent to 41 percent, with 58 percent of the voted counted. [source]

This means that 41% of voters in Alabama eight years ago voted against interracial marriage (even if the law by that time was ineffectual). While this is “the minority” (less than 50%), and the law was thrown out, it’s not really “a minority” - it is more than 2 in 5 people. It’s really not that far from half of them.

Of course with only 58% of the votes counted this may not have been entirely representative, esp. with urban precincts likely reporting later. I couldn’t find any final results during my quick googling. Still it’s probably not that far off and… well yeah. Kinda sad. Despite Obama.

[entry inspired by this CNN story about genocide] More »

The amount of drafts I have on here you wouldn’t believe. So to cut it down a bit let me publish a few (publishable ones) in this big aggregate entry. Only for the desperately bored! *lol* More »

Yack yack please indulge me (actually fuck you, if you don’t like it just bugger off lol). More »

In the end my tattoo seems to have done its job quite well.
(because that’s what it was of course. the tattoo)

This is pretty surreal to me and I hate to say it but I’m a bit starstruck.

[ok update] I’ve been had, it wasn’t the real one after all! Ah Internet you never disappoint. *lol* More »

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