And now for the good news

Yesterday voters in Topeka Kan. -- home of the execrable "God hates fags" cult of Fred Phelps -- rejected efforts to repeal a non-discrimination ordinance, as well as a run by by a Phelps family member to unseat the town's only openly gay city council member. On the other hand, the non-discrimination ordinance was only upheld by a 53-47 margin. That's Kansas, one of the reddest states in the nation.
 

By the way

Last night I fixed the comments feature, and also added permalinks to the site, so readers can now comment and link to their hearts' content. Hail Alexa, first to comment. Finally, I improved the truly awful layout of the Archives page, though it's still pretty bad.