Yes, we could! Yes, we did!

[flexagon]

Dinner with an old friend and a President-elect Obama... yes, just what I needed. :D

Also: Massachusetts voters today approved a ballot initiative to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, making getting caught with less than an ounce of pot punishable by a civil fine of $100.

I'm thinking about going down to DC for the inauguration. The friends we had dinner with live fairly close and are planning to go stand on Pennsylvania Ave in person. But that's for later... for now I must peel the "I voted" sticker off my shirt and go to sleep. As I do so, www.fivethirtyeight.com/ hasn't been wrong about a single state so far... impressive.

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[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

I also heard from another f-list person that there was an anti-cruelty to greyhound measure on the ballot in Massachusetts.

[flexagon]

I don't know if you saw taegubcrusade's answer below your comment -- the proposition wasn't strictly an anti-cruelty initiative, but rather a ban on dog racing (on the premise that it's cruel). It passed.

[taegubcrusade.livejournal.com]

As I write this, 538 has still not been wrong, but they're going to turn out to have been wrong in Indiana, which is breaking for Obama.

My biggest problem with the inauguration (besides, how the hell many tickets will be available?) is that all my friends in the D.C. area are severe libertarians (one of whom told me earlier today...er, yesteryday...that he's afraid of Obama), so that might put a blemish on the rose. Anyway, I already told Cthat inauguration tickets are on my Xmas list.

And a_kosmos, it wasn't strictly an anti-cruelty initiative, but rather a ban racing on the premise that it's cruel initiative. It passed.

[miyyu.livejournal.com]

Yay for Massachusetts! Hopefully other states will follow soon. Going to prison for a small amount of pot is just so stupid.

[flexagon]

You know, I was thinking that too, but then in the description of the measure it said it would bring us in line with decriminalization measures in effect ~12 other states.

From somewhere online:

Marijuana has already been decriminalized in 11 other states. Most of those laws were passed in the 1970s...

Really? I feel so uninformed. :-/

Apparently no results are in yet for California's Prop 8, which is the last thing now that has me worried.

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

So.. when does that particular initiative go into effect? Hopefully soon? :-)

[flexagon]

A month after the legislature meets sometime in the fall. I think we can hope for "by Christmas". :)

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Well, then... :-)

[webfaery.livejournal.com]

Congratulations America! Well done!