While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading
In Broad Win, Small Business Gets Preliminary Injunction Against Required ACA Emergency Contraception Coverage Now all we need to do is call the market “god” and we can bring back to slavery.
Wailing Justice and the law aren’t the same thing.
Origin Stories I didn’t expect this to make me cry, but it did.
TX Lege – These are the names to remember Details on what happened before Wendy Davis’ filibuster and a clear timeline of the whole event
Let’s Recap What Happened in Texas Being seen
Will Your State’s Waiters Give You the Flu? The National Restaurant Association wants to give you norovirus
Mandatory ultrasound law was germane to filibuster of sb5 Texas Republicans didn’t think the law they’re trying to pass was germane to debate on the law they were trying to pass.
Gay Marriage: Supreme Court Strikes Down DOMA, Avoids Prop 8 Ruling
Angola 3’s Herman Wallace Is Gravely Ill—But Still on Permanent Lockdown “Justice”
The Social Life of Memory We can’t have the future without the past
Putting Down Roots: New Paintings of Urban Growth and Turmoil by Amy Casey
Megapolis, detail
Academic extortion
The American Journal of Public Health says pay up or we’ll hurt your citation rate.
What do you need more, water or oil?
Canada’s relative lack of information about its own water resources could put it at a disadvantage in future disputes over waters that span the border between the two countries.
“We know far more about underground oil and gas …than we do about our underground water,” said James Bruce…
via Satellite data hinted at Alberta floods weeks ago – The Globe and Mail.
The Canadian government probably shouldn’t be laying off all the people who could solve this problem.
Tuesday Shoesday
leaf by trippen
A poem for your Monday
Straight from 3QD:
TWO STARS
after Mohammed Iqbal
As two stars approached
Each other, one said:
“If we could stay
Only could stop whirling,
If the sky were kinder
We’d shine together.”
But this desire of two
Bears longing in itself.
Stars are fated to revolve
In orbits ordained.
Together is a dream
Separation the law.
Translated, from the Urdu, by Rafiq Kathwari.
Waiting for Solomon’s Seal
solomon’s seal red by Karen Christine Hibbard
I planted several Solomon’s Seal at the end of April. They were bareroot, dehydrated and fragile feeling. I planted a lot of other things that day, too. Almost overnight I had a garden – ferns unfurled, bleeding hearts burst from bare root to bushes, Huechera and Brunnera put out new leaves so fast you could almost watch them grow. Some things were slower – it took nearly two months for the Jack in the Pulpit to sneak out from underneath the Dryopteris.
But 3 months on, not one of the Solomon’s Seal had poked a leaf above ground. After watching all my neighbors’ Solomon’s Seal bloom, I gave up on mine. Gardening is like that. Sometimes things die.
One morning last week, in between my tea and my shower, I set to planting some cheerful Impatiens I’d picked up from the produce stand to fill the gap in my garden created by the failed Solomon’s Seal. But my digging unearthed sturdy white rhizomes, fat and healthy. My Solomon’s Seal hadn’t died at all! They were just resting and plumping up in the moist, humusy soil.
I planted the Impatiens, carefully replacing the Solomon’s Seal rhizomes. Maybe they need a bit more time before they’re ready to make leaves, maybe they missed their chilling requirement. Gardening is like that. Sometimes you have to wait.