Archive for 2015
The language you found touching in the Supreme Court judgment pissed me off
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. … [M]arriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. … [The] hope [of the petitioners] is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask […]
Except that it is.
I told a friend that I couldn’t get together because of a health crisis. This scared her. When I said it wasn’t life-threatening, she responded that she was glad it wasn’t serious. Except that it is.
While you’re waiting for the bus
Predatory credit score-based insurance fees The achievement gap: whose problem is it? The Dangerous Myth of Appomattox The solution to Ghost Apartments is Obvious, and Not Done White womens feminisms still center around equality. Black womens feminisms demand justice Report confirms that police killed Natasha McKenna with her hands cuffed and legs shackled
Let your women keep silence in the churches. He’s got this.
Countertenors
Young people’s political identification isn’t about what’s trendy. You just left Marxism off your survey.
Measured by self-identification, partisanship is actually declining — growing numbers of Americans describe themselves as “independent” rather than loyal to one of the parties. But measured by actual voting behavior, the opposite is happening: Straight ticket voting continues to grow. This matches what operatives like Dan Pfeiffer have seen, and what Karl Rove saw a […]
Things all my real life friends find deathly boring
Let’s talk about pill splitting. Sometimes you don’t want to take your full dose for some reason, or sometimes it’s cheaper to buy a higher dose than you really need and then split the pills. At some point, half blind from a migraine at 2am searching for the half that shot off the counter when […]