Obama won. It surely was amazing, yes.
On the flip side, the majority of the state of California voted to WRITE INTO THEIR CONSTITUTION A BAN AGAINST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
How can a constitution DENY RIGHTS?
So now, all the tens of thousands of couples who already entered into the marriage contract may be told, “Whoops! It [...]

Across the pond:
Police fired a 50,000-volt Taser into the head of a 45-year-old company director who later proved to be unarmed and innocent. Daniel Sylvester, the owner of an east London security firm employing 65 staff to guard council offices, pubs and nightclubs, was driving home on October 20 when he was stopped by armed [...]

Rising consumption of natural resources means that humans began “eating the planet” on 9 October, a study suggests.
The date symbolised the day of the year when people’s demands exceeded the Earth’s ability to supply resources and absorb the demands placed upon it.
The figures’ authors said the world first “ecological debt day” fell on 19 December [...]

“The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said, referring to Bush’s address at the UN assembly on Tuesday.
“He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world.”
[Aljazeera.net: Chavez calls Bush 'the devil']
Well, Bush does talk to God, after all.

A gay pride march through central Bucharest turned into a riot on Saturday with police resorting to tear gas to gain control of more than a thousand protestors bent on disrupting the parade. …
Several hundred gays set out on the pride march but they were badly outnumbered by protestors - many of them from the [...]