Please say it ain't so, Colorado

"Colorado "Personhood" proposal's 2010 ballot title approved"

Am I losing my mind? Am I experiencing deja vu? Did we or did we not just shoot down this amendment last year?

Abortion opponents are one step closer to putting a "personhood amendment" on the 2010 ballot after the title of their proposal was approved Wednesday.

The next step is getting approval for the language on petition forms, and then gathering 76,047 valid voter signatures over the next six months.

The proposal differs from the failed 2008 "personhood amendment," said Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life.

That proposal defined a fertilized human egg as a person, which proponents conceded confused the public. The new one refers to "the beginning of the biological development of that human being."

Sigh. At least this past year's amendment was defeated 73% to 27%, so I don't have to start glaring at all of my neighbors. Although I was stuck in traffic behind a car yesterday with the following lovely decorations: 1) a "right-to-life" pro-"personhood" bumper sticker, 2) an "America is number one" type sticker, 3) two American flags, one fluttering from each front window and, 4) the kicker, a bumper sticker which read "One Nation, One LANGUAGE, One God." Did I mention that there are a lot of Mexican immigrants in Colorado? Yeah.

Sotomajority!*

Congratulations to new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic person and the third woman to serve!


See the NY Times for more.

* Full credit for this term goes to my friend Jenny.

ABDC: Beat Freaks

And now for something completely different:

Since I have a weird guilty-pleasure sort of thing going for America's Best Dance Crew and I'm lacking the time and energy for a more insightful post AND who doesn't want to procrastinate for a moment while watching awesome videos, I decided to post a quick little tribute tonight to Beat Freaks, the all-female dance crew that made it to the ABDC Season 3 Finale. Sadly, they were still beaten out by Quest Crew, but I'm pretty sure Beat Freaks was the first all-female team to make it that far in the competition. And, besides, they're awesome.