Upper Lefties...

...are sometimes prone to getting all puffed up about how progressive we are in our bright blue home with all those women in positions of power and all our electors going for Kerry and, well, all of our wonderful wonderfullness.

Then reality sets in to provide a little perspective...

Rep. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, on Wednesday re-introduced a bill to make it illegal in Washington to discriminate against someone due to the sexual orientation.

"This bill is long past due," said Murray, who's introduced the bill every year for the past 10. Murray is one of four openly gay Washington state lawmakers.

State law already makes it illegal to discriminate on the bases of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status or a handicap. But efforts to add sexual orientation to that list have repeatedly failed since the bill was first considered 29 years ago.

Isn't it time? Way past time?

Of course, there's still a matter of one of the country's most regressive tax structures, but let's stay in the realm of the vaguely possible, shall we?