Monday

And even more progress...

Africa's first elected female head of state takes office

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is now the president of Liberia.

Together with the rise of civil rights legislation around the globe (Britain, Canada, South Africa, etc.) allowing anyone to marry anyone they want, I continue to cling to the hope that the U.S. will emerge from the neo-Dark Ages in my lifetime.

4 comments:

reluctant texan said...

Also last week Chile elected it's first female head of state. Surely we can too.

reluctant texan said...

okay, obviously I didn't read further down on your blog before hastily posting. :-)

stuckupgirl said...

you can hastily post any time, reluctant texan.

reluctant texan said...

aw shucks!