So earlier this week in this lovely land of the United States of America where I am living for another month or two, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was defeated. I thought you all might like to see some of the opinions stated by the representatives before the vote.

Is it just mean, or is this just fucking nuts? You would never, never get away with saying things like that in a Canadian Parliment. It isn't done, and it's not done because religion and politics are not supposed to, ever, mix.

I guess the States forgot about that somewhere along the line.

The typical argument that's presented in Canadian Politics against Gay Marriage is usually along the lines of "Gay marriage discriminates against faith X because they would before forced to marry people, blah blah blah".

Clearly this is untrue, and the law is always presented in a way to prevent any church (Mosque, Temple, etc.) that does not want to perform these cerimonies from being forced to do so.

Moreover, It seems to me that protecting the rights of a majority to discriminate against a minority is kind of insane. Now we just need to get these fools to figure out that a little spec of 150 cells is not the same as a human being, and doesn't deserve protection and rights under law (This seems inherrantly obvious to me, but clearly I am not among a large majority in this matter).

Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley start-up has just unveiled their first vehicle, a roadster which is being produced by Lotus, and has a very similar design to the Lotus Elise.

The difference is that this one is all electric.

The Tesla Roadster can go 250 Miles on a single charge, with a maximum speed of 130 mph and will go 0 to 60 in 4 seconds. It's also completely silent, the only noise you hear is the wind rushing by.

That's good enough for me baby. The roadster also comes with all the goodies you expect with a luxury sports car: Satellite Radio, Navigation System, AC, etc.

Did I mention it's a convertible?

The price tag is supposedly between $80,000 and $120,000. High, but not for a luxury sports car (and most electric cars i've seen that look like that price up around half a million). See video below from Auto Blog Green.