Maybe Freedom Really Is on the March

I've been down lately. Who could blame me? The war in Iraq. Run-away federal spending. The near total regulation of every aspect of my life from putting things up my nose to squeezing things out my butt. Too often I fail to really reflect on the positive change that has happened in my life. From the end of national speed limits to the collapse of communism. Today, I at least read some good news. When I was in middle school (early 80s) it was illegal for whites and blacks to get married in South Africa. That law was gone by the time I graduated high school. The entire Apartheid system was eliminated by the time I graduated college. Now, just 20 years after South Africa legalized interracial marriage it has legalized same-sex marriage, becoming the first African nation and the fifth in the world to extend full marital rights to same-sex couples.

I may not live long enough to see the collapse of the welfare-warfare state; but, if I die in a world where low taxes, mostly free markets and equal rights to marriage for all is the norm, I will die happy. Of course, if I can legally smoke crack and order a prostitute on the phone while taking a crap in a good toilet, I will die even happier.