I have no idea what this actually says

I've been trying to make more progress over the last couple of weeks on getting Mozilla to use more of Pango's functionality. I've got most of the display side in the tree already. I've been working most recently on mouse selection. I've finally got it to the point where you can select only along grapheme cluster boundaries, and it will properly display selected text in the middle of string of shaped text. Screenshot is, of course, attached.

I need to work on the keyboard selection code, which is located in an entirely different place, and clean up what I have so I can get it into the tree. I also need to get testing on the changes on the other platforms since it touches the text frame code. But it's great to have this code finally working properly. I think a lot of users are going to like it.

It's a sad day to be an American. It's a sad day when fear and hate in the false guise of strength win over the forces of wisdom and common sense. When other countries talk about this one, they always talk about our never-ending optimism. When I see ballot initiatives pass that enshrine hatred into state constitutions, people elected who are essentially running against the government that they are elected to, I wonder if this is perception is warranted. When those same officials talk about America and the promises of freedom, and then vote to take those very freedoms away - the things that make this country great - I feel ashamed. Ashamed of the hypocrisy and the gall of those involved. I feel at this very moment that we are not a country of hope, but a sea of reactionaries who are easily distracted by rhetoric masquerading as reason. Who see causality as what holds together the two ends of a sentence instead of two logical facts, one that leads to the next. It's difficult to stomach. It's difficult to remain hopeful for our future.

We've elected a majority of people from a party that is a coalition of libertarians, religious zealots and habitual former dixiecrats. A party that talks about the importance of personal responsibility and accountability, yet led by a man who takes responsibility for nothing and holds no one responsible in his administration for any of the terrible mistakes that have been made. In the economy, in the prosecution of the war. In anything, it would seem. A false invincibility. And a deep-seeded arrogance, wrapped in a shroud of faith. Once again, difficult to stomach.

I guess we're in for a wild ride on the rails of the religious right. We do live in interesting times.