Who said Obama was the Antichrist? Aha, it was Victoria Jackson!

[The Ghost of RubangB]

The 50's and 60's sucked.

Interracial marriage was still illegal (until 1967), and there was no intramarital rape law, so a man could rape his wife any time of the day and she'd legally have no right to say no. Every state had a spousal rape exemption, so if a man rapes his wife, he gets a slap on the wrist. Nebraska was the first state to remove this exemption in 1976. Today in 2008, spousal rape is finally recognized as a crime in all 50 states, but 33 treat it as a lesser crime than real rape. You can get 1 and a half years in jail instead of 14, even though it's much more psychologically traumatic.

And Little Richard was out there inventing rock and roll, but he had to sleep in his car when he played a show because the racist hotels wouldn't give him a room!

We had the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Immigration Act of 1924, favoring only immigrants from northern and western Europe, because it was our foreign policy to be racist and pick and choose our immigrants, UNTIL 1965.

And even in 1978 you could assassinate Harvey Milk and get away with it because YOU ATE TOO MANY TWINKIES. (Because the justice system turns a blind eye when you kill a homosexual.)



America gets better all the time, just really really really slowly, because it's a huge fucking mess.



Anybody who misses the good old days is a sexist, racist, heterosexist bigot.

Or they're a Christian fundamentalist and the only issue they care about is "family values," in which case they've interpreted every step of progress America has made as an attack on "family values" and they go crazier and crazier as the country gets better and better!!!