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The world has gone mad! I cannot believe the utter stupidity of the people on this planet. From a slashdot post:

SlashChick writes “In an interesting twist on political correctness, LA County has banned the use of the terms ‘Master/Slave’ (commonly used to denote hard drive arrangements.) According to Snopes.com, ’someone within the County bureaucracy… had taken offense at “master/slave” references and complained to the board.’ LA County now requires that vendors working with the county remove all ‘master/slave’ references. Incredible. Read the full story.“

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I saw a Yahoo! News story from the AP that reports Massachusetts’s Governor Mitt Romney is going to fight a ruling from his state’s Supreme Judicial Court that declares a gay couple’s right to marriage is guaranteed by the state constitution. While I am not against gay marriages, I agree with one of the points made by some of the dissenting justices: this decision should have been made by the state legislature, the elected officials of the state. The court should have only ruled on the constitutionality of legislation that allows gay marriages to be recognized by the state. [image no longer available] The image above shows a breakdown of states’ policies on gay marriage. On the west coast, the government employers in Washington, Oregon and California offer some sort of benefits for domestic partners; most of New England does on the east coast. Wisconsin (go figure), New Mexico, Wyoming and New Hampshire are the only states that do not have laws prohibiting gay marriages. Every other state in the union has some sort of prohibition on gay marriages, including California and Washington. Continue reading ‘Same-sex marriages’