Behold, my bookshelf! I am in desperate need of another one for the other side of my couch. I’ve got books stacked all over the place. #books #bookshelf
Author Archives: Kathryn Brightbill
–Mildred Loving, the plaintiff in the landmark case of Loving v. Virginia that struck down interracial marriage bans, commenting in 2007 on the 40th anniversary of the Loving decision. #time4marriage #equality #SCOTUS
How I feel when I have to read another Scalia dissent.
The Nielsen Family is Dead
The Nielsen Family is Dead swordgirl: Haven’t gotten a chance to read this yet, but it sounds promising. We were a Nielsen family when I was little. The Nielsen guy came to our house a bunch of times before he finally convinced my parents to be a Nielsen family. They stuck the Nielsen box in […]
I hate to say this, being a Gator and all, but if I was the sort of person who bet on sports, I wouldn’t bet against Florida Gulf Coast in their Sweet Sixteen game versus Florida. Apart from the typical Cinderella considerations, you’ve also got to take into account that any smaller Florida school that takes on […]
The Boys of Lancaster
The Boys of Lancaster Ugh. If this article was written about indigenous people in some developing country, good lefties would have (rightly) complained that it was insulting and othering, but when it’s the Amish, we have The New Republic writing about Amish kids playing baseball in a way that’s just insulting and it’s all good. […]
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: DOMA
Sixteen and a half years ago President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, enshrining inequality into federal law. As Clinton tells it, he had to sign it because it was a veto-proof majority and any veto would have been overruled anyway, though I rather suspect that it had more to do with the fact […]
[TW: RAPE]
American media on the India gang rape: Omg those barbarians are out of control! Look at us, we’re so ahead of the times! American media on the Steubenville rape: Omg look at the lives we’re ruining by convicting these 16 year old rapists! –I will probably blog more about this later, but seriously, America needs […]
If I got a gallery show…
I would put labels on random elements in the room, like the benches and the thermostat. It would be a commentary on whether art is construct.
nprfreshair: As the Huffington Post points out, Justice Ginsburg wears lace gloves which is pretty rock and roll, no? Toobin, incidentally, does not address the subject of lace gloves in today’s interview about her. Seriously old school