I am not actually supposed to be writing this; David is making plans to turn CrankyYell into its own Social/political commentary spin-off. While he procrastinates with such devious devices I am supposed to sit on the side-lines and not rant and rave about this or that. As you can guess; I am not able to do that.

To appease both my own insatiable urge to yell and your hunger for my musings I will leave you with an observation and a music video.

First off; I found out an interesting fact about our government and representation of women within it.

Women hold 17% of the seats in our Federal Congress; they make up 51% of the population.

In racist, Apartheid South Africa, which we blockaded and lombasted for its injustice and oppression; blacks made up 85 of the 308 congressional seats; or 28% of the seats (they were about 65% of the electorate population).

That’s right; women have less representation than in a racially segregated third world nation from the mid-80s.

Chew on that while you watch this music video:

(Sources: South African Parliament & Women legistlators)

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