Happy news from Kat Stoeffel, at NYMag‘s ladyblog The Cut — “Notorious R.B.G. Gets Her Own Biography, From the People Who Made Her a Meme“:
Notorious R.B.G., the popular meme blog beloved by Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself, will soon be expanded into a full-blown biography of the Supreme Court Justice, co-authored by blog creator Shana Knizhnik and MSNBC reporter Irin Carmon. Combining reporting, feminist history, and photography, Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be an unobjective and irreverent celebration of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and role in the women’s movement, Carmon told the Cut…
Carmon sees R.B.G.’s recent elevation to Tumblr deity as a result of the general absence of “unapologetically fierce” women like Ginsburg in powerful positions, and of how outspoken Ginsburg has become in recent months (in particular, over her concern for the impact of the law on actual humans, a historic blind spot for the Supreme Court). “As the court has moved to the right and undone a lot of what R.B.G. and her generation fought for, she has let loose in a way that really resonates online, where people are frustrated about many of the same things,” Carmon (below) told the Cut…
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Apart from cheering our heroines, what’s on the agenda for the day?
EconWatcher
I admire her work on the Court and amazing career, but unless the Dems retake the Senate in 2016, there is zero chance of getting someone as liberal as she is confirmed to the Court as her replacement. She should have taken one for the team and stepped down before the 2014 elections. She was too dismissive of people (including her fans) who called for her to do just that. Unfortunately, there will be consequences for the country.
Mustang Bobby
When they make the inevitable biopic of R.B.G., I nominate Rhea Pearlman to play the part since Gilda Radner is no longer with us.
OzarkHillbilly
I guess Raven is rigging a rope in an old oak somewhere. The Dawgs have decided that Brian Schottenheimer should make their offense live up to their name.
Raven, don’t do it! I am proof that there is life after Schotty!
Keith G
@OzarkHillbilly: He is one thread below. Sure to be here soon. I did not see a rope.
Elizabelle
@EconWatcher: I agree, much as I admire RBG.
Fingers crossed Dems win big in 2016 and succession becomes a non-issue.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Apparently ya’ll were not that happy with him. Since we’re loaded on offense again it will be interesting to see what he can do.
raven
I’ve been walkin the pups, at 13 the princess no want to go. She will, however, ride to the bakery!
raven
Lou Rawls discussed “The Hawk:.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: In truth, as Bernie Miklasz says, it was and will remain Fisher’s offense. On the upside, Schotty is the guy who designed an offense that even Mark Sanchez could succeed in.
NotMax
@Mustang Bobby
One vote for Linda Hunt.
Phylllis
@NotMax: Make that two.
Navy bean soup with the bone from the Christmas ham in the crockpot for supper. That and some cornbread should keep me & the hubs together after this colder’n a witch’s anatomical part day.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Phylllis: Was 83 yesterday here. (ducks)
delk
Took longer to get dressed to go outside this morning than it did for the dog to do his business. Usually 15 to 30 minutes if I’m not in a rush, today about a minute and a half. Pee and poo (without an anticipatory twirl) and pulling my arm out of my socket to get back home.
-7° not counting wind chill
JPL
@BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks. It’s 8 degrees but we are suppose to warm up to thirty one.
Mustang Bobby
The Miami Herald is reporting a “Weather Alert: South Florida dips into the 50’s.”
JPL
@Mustang Bobby: That’s just cruel.
satby
@Mustang Bobby: Which my mother in St. Pete thinks is freezing! I and the dogs all frolicked in -8 (-30 wind chill) this morning, if by frolic you mean running out, peeing, and nearly pulling my arm out of the socket to run back into the house.
Mustang Bobby
@JPL: Having grown up in Ohio and Michigan, it’s not cold to me until the thermometer hits 0 F. But all the folks who either grew up here or in the Caribbean, it’s a real shock.
There will be clips on the local news of people going around in parkas and hats while I’m driving home with the top down.
OldDave
@JPL:
Bobby was being nice. It’s supposed to be warmer tomorrow (but with rain). It is considerably colder up in the Orlando area.
Phylllis
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’m a native Floridian & my high school buds seem to take great delight in posting stuff like that on their book of faces. That said, it was 75 in Charleston on the Sunday after Christmas, so it’s not as if we really suffer.
Phylllis
@Mustang Bobby: Ah yes, the snowbirds frolicking in the water at Anna Maria Island in February. There’s some fond memories.
Steeplejack
@raven:
Dawg, you always cite the wrong damn song! The almighty hawk ain’t nowhere in there. You want “Dead End Street.”
That said, we’re feeling the hawk this morning in NoVA. It’s 7° now, wind chill –5°. I’m staying in.
NotMax
@Mustang Bobby
Of course, because Mom flew down to Palm Beach area from NY on Tuesday for ten days with her older sister, who flew up there from Brazil.
Mustang Bobby
@NotMax: Not to worry. It will be back to normal — highs in the 80’s, lows in the 70’s — by tomorrow.
gvg
50’s is actually bad news in s Florida. Crops may be damaged and home ornamental plants (some) need to be protected. In N Central florida we run around putting blankets of some plants in the cold to us dark when we get alerts about frost or dips to the 30’s. It was predicted to get down into the upper 20’s last night but was 30 this morning at the house. Not sure about the rest of the area but to us it is miserably cold. Dogs don’t like it especially the sleek thin coated hound. He barely moves except from one fluffy dog bed to another this week. I am promising to make him a big nest bed with sides against drafts as I couldn’t find what I wanted in stores.
Floridians plant a lot of tropicals but most of the state isn’t quite. We get a freeze and those plants which aren’t protected turn to brown mush. Tropical plants aren’t evolved to expect freezing and they don’t handle it as gracefully as northern plants. It can be really yucky. So when it warms a little people want to trim off the yuck and have trouble with the advice to leave it as the dead foliage is some protection against the next frost.
Orlando around International Drive and Disney is especially bad because all the hotels plant lush fancy tropical stuff to look fabulous for the tourists, but Orlando just isn’t quite that tropical and when a freeze hits, there is a lot of really ugly brown mush plants instead of exotic attractive tropicals. I recall in the 80’s it snowed on I-drive once…the month after was not pleasing to the eye.
In the past I have heard that a lot of the older homes in S Florida don’t even have heat but not sure that is still true.
Botsplainer
I took some time looking at Charlie Hebdo imagery and reading translations (my French sucks).
My take is that the work of those cartoonists as a whole is puerile and not even close to good satire. There seems a complete disconnect between the images and dialogue and anything remotely touching the life and philosophy of persons depicted. This wasn’t The Satanic Verses or The Last Temptation of Christ – the stuff drawn appeared to me to be offensive merely to be offensive.
It isn’t persuasive or thought provoking – it is propaganda designed to confirm and harden negative opinions, not unlike the Nazi propaganda against Jews and other untermensch. In fact, the only people I can imagine buying it are older far rightists of Le Pen the Elder leanings.
The killings are wrong, but off-topic demonization can provoke strange reactions.
SarahT
Another cool thing to look forward to :
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/neil-degrasse-tysons-star-talk-podcast-to-be-adapted-into-late-night-tv-talk-show/