Dahlia Lithwick at Slate has a wonderful tribute describing how “Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows how feminism is done. Again.” … Palin and the Mama Grizzlies also owe a debt of thanks directly to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who almost single-handedly convinced the courts and legislatures to do away with gender classifications in matters ranging from a …
Archives for August 2010
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Just Some Terrorists, Who Cares?
Gunshots, harassment and injuries, leading to a hate crime charge near my hometown, in a rural area between Buffalo and Rochester: According to Jacob Zimmerman, member of the World Sufi Foundation, Monday night during evening prayers, cars drove by the mosque with people yelling obscenities and squealing tires—and gunshots were fired. Zimmerman said when the …
Tattoo This Onto The Belly Of Every Beltway Journalist
Generals are not fucking saints: Everyone should remember that these are military careerists. War provides the opportunity for testing their skills, getting medals and promotions. A compromise peace without their definition of “victory” might be considered a failure. They all want to march down Pennsylvania Avenue like General Norman Schwarzkopf. Likewise, the contractors want to …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Wagon Trek to Rosslyn, Fellow Nerds!
Well, probably not, but I’ll admit I was tickled to learn “How the Washington Shakespeare Company came to offer Shakespeare in Klingon”: … [N]ow, we Terrans have an opportunity to savor Shex’pir as the Klingons do. The Washington Shakespeare Company, that Arlington outpost of offbeat treatments of classic plays, is going where no D.C. enterprise …
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Four Winds
I like this one: Never got in to Bright Eyes that much, but I’ve been listening recently and so far so good, especially his more recent stuff.
Open Thread
In order to lower my blood pressure, I stopped thinking about the worst company in the world, paypal, and spent the watching Amadeus on Netflix. Still one of the best movies ever made. And I wish I could laugh like Tom Hulce, who always reminds me of a better looking Bob Geldof. BTW- how many …