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"Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. ... I felt
very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."
-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar |
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"On the surface, it sounds irresponsible, but to flourish in a rapidly changing world, you actually need to make more mistakes. Fail quickly. Fail often. If you do something and it
doesn't work, just recover in a hurry and try something else. ... Help develop a culture that is willing to fail its way to the future."
-- Price Pritchett, Culture Shift |
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"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction -- every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour."
-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar |
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| another blow to equal rights |
| Tuesday, May 26, 2009 |
The California Supreme Court slapped civil rights in the face today by upholding that wretched Proposition 8 debacle the closed-minded, xenophobic hate mongers in California voted in by a margin of 52 to 48.
To summarize the travesty that's happened there, let's look at two things.
First is the equal protection clause in California's own state constitution that everyone seems to have forgotten about:
Article I. Sec 7(a):
A person may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or denied equal protection of the laws[.]
Next, let's look at the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and try that shit on for size:
Section I.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
According to this last bit of evidence, forty-five states are now in violation of the equal protection clause set forth by the U.S. Constitution, including California, which is also in violation of its own state constitution. Any amendment passed which so egregiously violates an existing portion of the current constitution is clearly unconstitutional and should be struck down by the appropriate court.
Curtain.
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