Oh good grief

[i_kender]

From Neil Gaiman's Journal yesterday, a story about how "Hallowe'en is being banned at a Washington school because it's disrespectful to witches." Americans... honestly. I'm so glad we were never affected by the plague of political correctness in the same way in the UK.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=184701&page=1

And for the record? Witches *like* dressing up.

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[zazuomgwtf.livejournal.com]

::scratches head::
this is the same country where marriage is defined as a union between a man and a woman was almost made law...
You can take the basic rights away from one group of people on the one hand and worry that pointy hats will insult the followers of the wicca religion on the other...
Is is me, or does this make no sense.

[i_kender]

No, I'm with you... I was just as flabbergasted to hear about the gay marriage law being repealed in San Francisco as I was pleased to hear it implemented in the first place.

It just all seems so arbitrary sometimes, dependant on passing whimsy.

Even though I don't live in America, I'm going to lock myself in a room on November 2nd with no communication with the media in any form and then get riotously and gleefully drunk in whooping celebration that night. The next day will be soon enough to find out who really won.

[zazuomgwtf.livejournal.com]

I do not live in the States either, but as I am a citizen, I have the right to vote which I have already joyfully employed. ::crosses fingers:: I hope the world does not have to put up with another 4 years of bush.

Lick Bush

[i_kender]

Bless you... you've voted on behalf of all of us foreigners who wish they could have a say in what kind of world we're going to be living in for the next four years! Well, today's the day...

::crossing all extremities and holding breath::