Changes.
Is it really only the XVLIIth Super Bowl I don’t give a damn about? Seems like more.
What do Roman ordinals look like?
the alignment of the niche is nigh
the alignment of the niche is nigh
The cycle of the niche
I’ve written about it before. I’ll write about it again. Twice each year, we witness an alignment of light on a hallway niche soon after dawn. The next full alignment will be in about 10 days, but already the circle of light touches the niche for the first time since last October.
The wheel of time turns.
“the stupidest thing anyone has said recently about the Civil Rights Movement…”- Leonard Pitts Jr.
That distinction goes to one Larry Ward, who claimed in an appearance on CNN that Martin Luther King would have supported Ward’s call for a Gun Appreciation Day “if he were alive today.” In other words, the premiere American pacifist of the 20th century would be singing the praises of guns, except that he was shot in the face with one 45 years ago.
Thus do social conservatives continue to rewrite the inconvenient truths of African-American history, repurposing that tale of incandescent triumph and inconsolable woe to make it useful within the crabbed corners of their failed and discredited dogma.
The slow steps toward equality
It took a century and a half for women to gain representation. A century after that, women are still not entirely equal. Old rich white men rule. Why? Because they’re rich. Money runs AmeriCo.
Goodreads | Quote of the Day for January 31, 2013
“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
? Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams