re: gay rights, immigration rights.

maybe one day progressives will take up voting rights for DC and puerto rico residents. they have second class citizenship status by law. a huge de jure discrimination issue. few liberals and progressives seem to care. it's likely that undocumented aliens in say, texas, will get the right to vote for a senator in the senate before DC residents do, although many of them have lived there for generations, built the capitol building, served in wars, pay taxes, etc. ironically, not only do they have less rights than us here in the 50 states, we have domination over them as WE vote for the people who make laws binding on THEM. Same with puerto rico. maybe one day liberals will takeup the cause of ending second class citizenship for everyone. certainly, there is no moral case that DC and puerto rico persons are less deserving of equal voting rights than you and me? or that we are morally entitled to rule over them?

I don't think that the UN drug-status-quo group arguing for more drug-status-quo is that interesting and we'll hear from the the AG soon enough...

I am much more interested in what this does to various coalitions at the national level.

I believe the Republican's currently have the black-helicopter fighters, the drug moralists, the lop floors from the UN building brigade, the state's rights militia, all sorts of profit-seeking corporationists... I am interested to see their reactions and genuinely believe that we might see a few of their heads literally explode.