Yeah, which means it won't happen before 2014. But I think this could be a motivational issue for the off-year elections.

Yes. Congress could choose to require preclearance for everyone. And they should. In fact, the Dems can and should turn this into a club to beat over Republican heads from now til November 2014.

Yes and no. They didn't strike down Section 5, which authorizes preclearance. They struck down Section 4, which was the formula used to determine which regions were subject to preclearance. The basis for doing so was that the formula was outdated, though as Ginsburg points out in her dissent, Congress put a lot of…

I can see that. And certainly given that T & S were both willing to declare Grutter unconstitutional, it could have been far, far worse.

Fair enough. It's far enough away from the Iowa border that you can't blame us for this one.

I don't know about anti-climactic. They still made it tougher for such laws to pass muster in the future.

Looks like it's close enough to the border you could blame the Minnesotans...

I saw the photo credit at the bottom and my first thought was 'Solent Fur is people!'

Being male, I hate to say it's typical male wish fulfillment, where in the woman he was chasing who didn't want anything to do with him suddenly realizes that he is the most perfect thing in the world. But I'm afraid that's it.

Yeah, if you look at Kickstarter, the project launched on May 29, and on May 30 he had a post saying he had made his goal. Sure, it was only $2K originally, but he hit it withing 24 hours of launch. The last update was on the 14th, and in that one he said he had already hit $9k.

I always use semaphore when it comes to sexy time with a new woman. I tried smoke signals once, but my date got scared by the fire and left.

You have to wait 30 days to see if anyone else claims it, but yes, after that it's yours.

This is the scariest thing about the modern Republican party. It's one thing to say basic intelligence isn't all that important. It's another thing entirely to denigrate intelligence and glorify stupidity. But that is, for all intents and purposes, what they have done in every field, not just science. Facts,…

Mispidry?

That's a lot of fruit...

I spanked my son once, just one quick swat, and I felt so incredibly shitty and horrible for doing so that I never did it again. There are much, much, much, MUCH better ways to discipline a child.

You can't handle the truth. We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by gopher trappers. Who's gonna do it? You? Gopher trappers have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for the gophers and curse the trappers. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not…

I don't have the graphic design skills, but it seems like there's an opportunity here to boil this down into a very funny flowchart.

How was the term paper?

This explains the title of Paula's new Food Network show "Krazy Klan Kooking"