Because I like to connect things: Walker was drafted by 45* for this position; 45* had as one of his ‘advisers’ Hope Hicks; Hope Hicks’s father, Paul, spend much of his career trying to get the world to believe that -a- the NFL didn’t have a CTE problem, and -b- even if it did, CTE isn’t such a terrible thing after…

Periods for Pence redux.

The two ‘Oscar bait’ movies I’m looking most forward to seeing are both Irish: Banshees of Inisherin and the official Irish entry for Best International Feature Film An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl). I’m not sure they fit your bill of “a sexy movie with an R rating or a visually interesting film” but they’ve both been…

And so, it fell to on-air commentator (& out queer person) Alex Scott to ‘man up’ and do the right thing.

Comedian Joe Lycett calling David Beckham on the carpet for his involvement in the World Cup.

1. Justice Jackson’s Q (in the UNC case) regarding just how different ‘legacy’ is for a Black applicant and a white applicant was a great moment.

Hasn’t Reeves been universally loved for most of his career? I mean all the stories about how much of a great guy he is do go back decades.

In Ireland, all it took was one woman (well, not really “all”, but it was a strong catalyst) dying because her doctors equivocated about whether they could terminate her pregnancy so she wouldn’t die of sepsis for there to be a referendum on repealing their constitutional ban on abortion. (End result? 66.90% voted in…

I know it’s 100% not sensible, but this story about Newman make me more likely to believe the tales of him and Eartha Kitt and James Dean:

Speaking of the Secretary of State of Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities (related to his appearance today on BBC Breakfast).

I’ve lived where abortion was illegal. I remember those ‘shopping trips’ that women took to England. It has since become legalised, thanks to the death of Savita Halappanavar. There are at least two (at a stretch, three) generations of people here in the States who have no idea what it’ll be like.

There’s something in the “Sir Matthew Hale” (as opposed to simply going with “Matthew Hale”) in the decision that sticks out to me & I can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s like Alito is trying desperately to lend authority to the thoughts of a man who lived four centuries ago. It smacks to me of overegging the…

Also ‘we’? 

My sister & brother-in-law decided when their eldest child (of three) got to college choosing age that several states would be out of the running for their college $$$. Florida & Texas are amongst those states. This was not just because of anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ+ laws enacted in said states, but also for anti-science…

I’ve read only the first paragraph so far, and yet, on this: “I don’t even own a place right now, I’m literally staying at friends’ places,” I’m calling bullshit. He doesn’t have ‘friends’.

Having lived in a country where abortion was illegal and where women would take ‘shopping weekend’ trips to the UK, I’m flummoxed at this.

No. I had a brain fart: I was meaning his 2020 reelection campaign was registered on 20 January 2017.

What makes a person an ‘official’ candidate? Trump registered his ’24 reelection campaign on 20 January 2021.

It’s a good listen. One of the points I really liked is where she said that at age 12 she was reading a book (I think it might’ve been Enola Holmes) thinking about it as a film, and she thought ‘I probably couldn’t play this part, so I’ll just be a Producer of the film and let someone else play it’.

I’ve been shouting about Roe being in jeopardy since GWB/2000.  And the current SCOTUS bench is the GOP reaping the benefits of all those years of seeding the lower courts.