Maddie-Gate?

The ASUO elections have already turned absurd, as exec candidate Maddie Melton’s house was broken into. The bitch of it all is that the first thing she assumes is that it’s motivated because she’s a lesbian. The article:

Melton said she believes Thursday’s crime may have happened because of her sexual orientation or because of her increased political activity. What’s more worrisome, Melton says: “Someone doesn’t have to write ‘Die dyke’ on the wall for it to be a hate crime.” I wasn’t going to hit on this until the Hate issue, but if someone is already willing to label a B&E misdemeanor a “hate crime” simply because the victim is a popular minority group, then things are getting even further out of hand than I thought. Melton is one of seven ASUO exec candidates in the primary.

Also: Fareed Zakaria has a provocative piece on the Bush foreign diplomacy mistake. It is highly critical, and very long, but well worth the read. You’ll probably even agree with the underlying sentiment.

A quick side note: In the story the ASUO elections coordinator used the commonly abused term “breaking and entering.” Kids, always remember it’s “breaking an entering” and “eat your cake and have it too.” Otherwise you’re just sticking one more dagger into our common lexicon.

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