Kirmizi_ada

Come to this land of sunshine
To this land where life is young.
Where the wide, wide world is waiting,
The songs that will now be sung.
Where the golden sun is flaming
Into warm, white shining day,
And the sons of men are blazing
Their priceless right of way.

Last night, Arisona became the first state ever, in which the voters themselves rejected a ban on gay marraige. Masseltov, Arizonans! Since I don't know the melody to the state song, I will just set the words to "Strange Fire" and sing it on the subway this morning for spare change.

Unfortunately, despite having canned two anti-immigration House candidates, these voters also approved English-only legislation with a devastating 74% majority. I guess you can be a married gay immigrant Arizonan, as long as you do it all...in English. Hmmm, ¿qué hacer?

The Hamburg weekly Die Zeit dramatically painted the new US political landscape this morning as follows: "Bemerkenswert ist auch die Geographie dieser Wahl. Sie hat für die Republikaner einen Todesstreifen produziert, der sich von Neu-England über Pennsylvannia entlang der grossen Seen bis in den Mittleren Westen zieht. Hier sind die Abgeordneten der Rechten haufenweise gefallen." ["The geography of this election is noteworthy as well. It produced a no-go zone for Republicans, reaching from New England over Pennsylvania along the Great Lakes to the Midwest. Right-leaning Congressmembers there have fallen by the boatload."]