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I was watching the excellent 2004 film Kinsey, about the controversial professor who studied human sexuality in detail. In one scene, he talks with a man who claims to have basically done every perverted thing imaginable, many times. So I went to Wikipedia and discovered something kinda funny; out of every country in the world, the United States is the only one with laws against marrying a first cousin, and even here it is only illegal in 26 states(it is legal in D.C.). Interesting, yes, yes?

Here's a question that came up last night; is it important that you marry something with similar political leanings? I spoke with a particularly vile human being who declared that being with someone that didn't share their political viewpoint was out of the question. While looking for someone with similar viewpoints is probably a decent idea(especially somewhere like Iowa where opinions can be so different), I really hate the idea of completely shutting yourself off to relationships or even friendships with people solely because of their political views.

In some areas, this would be even more ridiclious. The last town I lived in was Selma, Alabama. Out of the 100 or so people in my grade at school, I would be surprised if more than 10 voted against Bush. What would voting for Bush say about any of those people? Absolutely nothing, because every fucking white person there votes that way. Point being that political viewpoints don't necessairly say as much about people as you might think.

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"The refusal of this administration to level with the American people on matters large and small is very disturbing, because it goes counter to the way our constitutional democracy ... is supposed to work." - Hilary Clinton, re: Dick Cheney's shooting incident and the subsequent media chatter about how Dick didn't get on the cell phone afterwards and call the New York Times.

Is it just me, or is it really despicable that Hilary Clinton, of just about all people, could make a remark like that? Just an observation.