Laverne Cox is your new Dr. Frank N. Furter.
Minor league baseball players suing MLB over allegations that they were paid less than minimum wage have won their request to include a much larger class of players in the lawsuit.
Still in mourning for the end of Mythbusters.
“Other than blowing up an entire planet to torture a prisoner/deter other planets, the Empire was pretty moderate.”
“All of which calls the question: Why on earth have right-wingers always been so unhinged in their hatred for the Clintons?”
Christina Kahrl > Daniel Murphy >> Lance Berkman.
RIP, Flip Saunders, coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
IT’S ALL CONNECTED SOMEHOW.
Meet Roberta Kaplan, the attorney who took down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013.
“Why do we lock up so many people—disrupting so many families and so many communities—to achieve the same crime results we did nearly a half century ago?”
“Justice Ginsburg has been depicted as an avenging angel smiting her enemies, with two middle fingers up in the air, and as a warrior Athena inked on the arm of more than one feminist. (The justice, generally amused by all this, has told me that she thinks the tattoos go too far.) Spend enough time looking at this fan art and you can get the impression that she is a sort of judicial Carrie Nation, hacking at injustice with a hatchet.”
RIP, Andrew Longman, brother of Martin Longman.
Congrats to Judy MacLeod, first female Commissioner of an FBS conference.
“The only actual interesting thing about Carson is that he raises a question we rarely get the chance to contemplate: how can a man who is so obviously distinguished and brilliant in one field be such an across-the-board nincompoop in another?”
“Because Lincoln and King achieved what we now see as their critical achievements prior to their deaths, the passage of time has allowed us to weave their tragic murders into a complete and comprehensible story. This is what humans do. We take things as brutally simple as two gunshot murders and wrap them into something more profound, even satisfying and complete. But what Rabin was meant to do, could have done, maybe simply had the chance to do just never happened. It never gets better.”
Have you ever really read the Prodigal Son parable?
Only a good dog with a gun can stop a bad dog with a gun. Or something like that.
Now that is how capitalism is supposed to work.
“I do believe that, even in its editorial pages, that the New York Times, like all publications, has a duty to the represent the truth to the best of its ability. More than many other figures who misrepresent or oversimplify Catholic theology in the mainstream media, Mr. Douthat has tended to portray himself as one who recites Catholic teaching rather than one who interprets it, especially over the course of the past few weeks. This alone I take issue with.”
“Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert admits for this first time in his plea deal that he agreed to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed person to conceal his past misconduct against that person.”
The case for year-round Daylight Savings Time.
“What makes some of us binge-watch frightening TV shows like Penny Dreadful and mainline Stephen King while others of us can’t walk the Halloween aisle at Target?”
Boy, SxSW really screwed the pooch on this.
RIP, Grantland. And just as basketball season was starting, too.
RIP, Al Molinaro, actor best known for roles on The Odd Couple and Happy Days.
The rationale for Hillary’s excitement of the right-wing base is true enough so far as it goes, but I think it misses two important factors. The first is that Bill Clinton was the first baby boomer candidate for president, and the GOP was concerned about ceding that generation’s cool. But more importantly, the arrival of Newt Gingrich in Congress signaled a new, nastier & more ideological generation of Republican leadership.