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A little less than fifty years ago inter-racial marriage was illegal in close to half the united states, It was one of those things which was still left up to the states to decide, until the Supreme Court ruled on the issue in 1967, making it legal for men and women of differing races to marry each other. Up until that time if a white woman from, say, Oklahoma, wanted to marry a black man who grew up in Georgia-- well it just wasn’t going to happen, because both those states considered inter-racial marriage un-natural, immoral, and illegal.

The Bartender who shot the Romney 47% video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zzD7Gbv4TIE

I know its traditional, but wouldn't it be awesome if those Cardinals in the Conclave at the Vatican were to release pink smoke instead of Black, when their voting had failed to elect a new Pope? Can you imagine how insane the World's Media Outlets would become trying to figure out what the smoke meant. And maybe the could release Orange, red, or even Green for St. Patrick's Day. I can't imagine that the Cardinals wouldn't laugh their asses off imagining what the world response would be to the smoke.

I'm not sure why, but NBC still hasn't posted the cold opener from this week's show. It was a song tribute to the recently deceased President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, sung by Justin Timberlake doing an impression of Elton John. You can see the sketch here where its posted now on Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/10/saturday-night-live-hugo-chavez...
Perhaps Elton John was unhappy with their use of his song?

Did you miss anything in House of Cards? Check out my episode by episode reviews here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQgKEC63TPqL8dGvVkIkotYDgDMTQEylM&...

So who exactly does the Pope hand in his resignation to?

Pope and God.
Pope: Thanks for seeing me so quickly.
God: No problem Benny! I would have seen you sooner, but you know, with that Meteor in Russia and all this crazy weather -- I’ll tell you, I haven’t been able to sneak in a nap in years!
Pope: A nap? You take naps?
God: Sure! How do you think you got elected?
Pope: But I was sure so sure you chose me--
God: (Laughs) What good would free will be if I made all the decisions for you -- but what was it you wanted to see me about?

From Nicholas Kristof in the NYTimes: "Look north to Canada. It now requires a 28-day waiting period to buy a handgun, and it imposes a clever safeguard: gun buyers should have the support of two people vouching for them."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-do-we-have-the-...
I love the idea of requiring two people to vouch for someone wanting to buy a gun. I'd also like to see a national tax on the sale of bullets, which are way too cheap.

I am well aware of how much I have to be Thankful for this Thanksgiving, but I sure learned a lot about myself from this online tool/study which is being done at UC Berkeley: http://www.thnx4.org/

Here's what its all about!
Digital Gratitude Journal

Brought to you by Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

Thnx4 is a sharable gratitude journal. Take the 14-day gratitude challenge, learn more about yourself, and add to the growing body of research on the benefits of saying thanks!
Start!

Well based on last night's SNL premier, I think its fair to say that the show's four year honeymoon with President Obama is over. They didn't just hand off the role of Barack Obama from Fred Armisen to Jay Pharoah, they also changed the tone of their writing surrounding the President. Where Armisen's Obama was rather meek, Pharoah's Obama is more "in your face." And you have to look no farther than the parody campaign commercial they ran to see what I'm talking about.

Just a random thought here, but the GOP has to be pooping its pants today, because when you compare what happened at Mitt's Convention to what's been going on at Obama's Convention, well, there's just no comparison. Last week as each day of the RNC unfolded, the stories the morning after were always about what went wrong the night before. Chris Christie barely mentioning Mitt Romney in his speech. Three days when barely a mention was made of the military, foreign policy, and the war we're still fighting. And then there was THE CHAIR.