Good Job, World!

I have been very happy with the course of world events recently. In the past month or so, a multitude of nice, progressive, liberal things happened:

-Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf scored a 59.4-40.6% victory in Liberia's presidential election, making her the first elected female head of state in the history of Africa.

-On December 21, the United Kingdom began allowing the union of homosexual couples, a move that was overwhelmingly supported by the country's people. The UK joins Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Canada, Argentina, New Zealand, and South Africa (along with some US states) to legalize homosexual unions. (Note the difficulty in finding a "Western" country that isn't on this list. Hey America, get a move on!)

-The United States senate, breaking partisan binds, shot down a measure to begin drilling in Alaska's Arctic Wildlife Refuge. This was despite the fact that the proposal was tacked on to the Defense Funding Bill, meaning Senators caught the evil Republican's plan and didn't buy it. Nice.

-A judge in Pennsylvania mega shot down a school board's lawsuit to allow the teaching of "Intelligent Design" in schools. His over 100-page ruling was scathing, full of harsh language, and called the defendants "liars." The judge was a Bush-appointee.

Yay world!