Today I'm a Proud Nutmegger


Once in a while I am very proud of my state and today is one of those times.

Yesterday the Connecticut State Senate voted in favor of a civil union bill that would extend virtually all the rights and responsibilities afforded straight couples to the state's gay couples. It is expected to be passed by the house too.

Several Republicans voted in favor of the bill and I am very proud of them. The count was 27 to 9, or three to one.

An attempt to put an amendment on the bill to define marriage as only between a man and a woman was defeated soundly.

Marriage rights to all adult couples will be next. But for now I’m content with this civil union bill and my state.

Also, our Attorney General is planning on suing the federal government for imposing the ridiculous brain? child of George Bush, the No Child Left Behind Act. Impossible to enforce, ridiculous in concept and a real step backward for education, our state’s suit will point out that special education children and ESL children cannot pass grade level course work and should not be expected to do so. The only way that can happen is by lowering the standards for all children.

The No Child Act will and has just dumbed down our education requirements.

So Connecticut, even with your impossibly high prices for housing, your dirty mayors and governor and your stinky winter weather, I am loving you now.

But why do we have to pay so much for gas?