Bush Wins 2nd Term

I, like millions of other Americans, have stared at the newspapers and television reports with disbelief at the state of the Presidential election.

When we see the Supreme Court stacked with conservatives willing to overturn Roe v. Wade, privitization of Social Security, polluters continuing to write our environmental protection laws, science committee members disappearing from Presidential teams because the facts they advocated ran counter to Administration policy, it's not because I supported it! No, sir -- I can proudly say that I opposed all of these things Nov. 2.

How bad to things need to get before the average American will actually open their eyes to the world? Do we need to write discrimination into the Constitution? ("All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others," to quote Orwell.) Maybe with an _informed_ electorate things would have been different. But our crappy schools don't produce (on average) citizens of the world -- or even of the US.

I'm sad. Sad for the state of the Nation, sad for the state of science in the country, and sad for the millions of people in the middle class that are continuing to be stomped on by the Good Ole' Boys in Washington.

At least MN and WI both made the right choices...