getting a headache from the news

The news stories are just insane this past week. First, everyone's watching a homemade balloon fly around Colorado for several hours, because we believe there's a 6-year-old boy inside. The balloon lands and it changes to "He's not inside! Oh no, did he fall out somewhere?" The good news is that he was found hiding in a box in the attic. There's been some speculation that the family staged it but I don't think it's been proven. In any case, it's certainly not the best parenting to have an object that could easily carry away one of your children out of reach within moments.

And now there's a Justice of the Peace who refused to marry an interracial couple. He's well within his rights to not like interracial relationships. Fine. Whatever. But interracial marriage is now legal in the U.S. It's been legal for decades. If you take on a job knowing full well that you'll be asked to do something that's legal but you personally disagree with, and then you refuse to do it, you should find another job. And anybody who starts out an argument with "I'm not a racist, but..." should be immediately disqualified from continuing.

*gets off of soapbox*