Quote of The Day

So a canvasser goes to a woman's door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she's planning to vote for. She isn't sure, has to ask her husband who she's voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, "We're votin' for the n***er!"

Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: "We're voting for the n***er."

Cheers to miss_s_b for passing on the quote and the link to its origin.

Edit:
What I find particularly interesting is that (a)there are people still out there who will use the word 'nigger' without even thinking whether it might be offensive and (b) those people are actually perfectly happy to vote for Barack Obama. Which means that American attitudes towards race are altogether more complex than you might have thought...

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-18-2008

• Man killed wife in Facebook row
  Which highlights the dangers of social networking. No, wait, it highlights the dangers of marrying psychopaths with anger management problems.
  (tags: technology law facebook)
• Disabled rugby player travels to Switzerland to commit suicide
  I'm entirely in favour of his right to do so, but I hope that he got plenty of help and counselling before he reached that stage.
  (tags: suicide rights)
• Coping With Panic Attacks
  Some excellent advice
  (tags: advice panic)

Happy birthday autopope

Wow

Massive landslide caught on webcam:

(from linkmachinego)