Sydney Poitier won it for being a handyman who builds a church.

This recipe was published way before 2003. Laurie Colwin includes it in one of her Home Cooking books back in the late 80s, early 90s and she got it from somewhere else, though it’s Katharine Hepburn’s brownies—that part’s consistent.

I think losing a child is so devastating that it’s hard to come out on point and go after the NRA, the grief is just too deep. These kids lost friends, but they didn’t lose family, so they have their support systems intact *and* they have the fierce anger about having been victimized by a shooter. Doesn’t hurt that…

Yep, not what anyone wants to hear, but it’s true. The single-focus on the NRA is a plus, not a minus—that’s why it’s been as effective as it has been.

And while a focus on gun control won’t fix racism, it has the potential to save lives of all skin tones.

One of the kids still in the hospital and hailed as a hero because he held the door for people is biracial.

And “latinx” is a bad idea—it’s not how Spanish works—SJW Tumblr needs to drop it—it’s a gendered language, so “Latinos” is fine and inclusive. Let’s not tell other people what to call themselves.

I have a kid who also loves the book, so two memories at work—hers far better than mine. I’m also old enough to remember how unusual non-white leads were. Ged in Earthsea was a big deal that way.

Yeah, Meg and her family are white. Charles is blond and blue-eyed. Her mother has red hair and violet eyes. Meg, in a later book, has long flowing chestnut hair and blue eyes. The twins, as I recall, are sandy-haired and freckled.

I’m sure Ava DuVernay has made a dazzling, entertaining film, but it sounds like it’s…

The First Amendment doesn’t apply here—all it does is keep the government from limiting speech. Private companies aren’t obligated to carry an app for the NRA.

Oh sweetie, you’re just a pawn for gun makers—who go out of their way to tell you how big, bad and scary the world is so you’ll buy more guns than you could need for legal reasons.

But, thing is, there aren’t really that many of you—there are a lot more of us who support sensible gun reform.

By the way, First Amendment…

From Russia with Love . . .

Drop the “Latinx”—it’s not appreciated by Latinos.

Where are you *really* from? The funny thing, to me, is that it’s obvious that Mirai is from SoCal—she totally talks like a Valley Girl.

What does Quentin Tarantino have to do with The Shape of Water?

Wow, well, no one will see this, but this is a really distorted take on early feminism.

So, Anthony didn’t oppose black men getting the vote, she opposed women not getting suffrage as well. Because feminism arose from the abolitionist movement. She and Stanton were both angry that women were iced out of the 14th…

Oh sweetie, if you’re going to go that route, you need to start with how women were iced out of the 14th Amendment.

It wasn’t after the fact. Rowling kept the HP film makers from giving Dumbledore a female love interest before she finished the series because she envisioned him as gay. This wasn’t revealed to the general public until after the series was finished, but she didn’t retcon it.

If you know about the Cambridge Five and…

Weird thing about Hitler’s followers is that a bunch of the early Brownshirts were gay—Ernst Rohm and his crew. But there were also Jews who were early supporters of Nazism. Hitler had a habit of turning on allies and trying to kill them. Didn’t work with Stalin who was as ruthless as he was.

Conclusion—no—but definitely crossed my mind. Hogwart’s is Rowling’s version of the English public school—and Dumbledore/Grindelwald was clearly modeled on some historical characters, some of whom were gay. I’m thinking, particularly, of the Kim Philby/Guy Burgess/Anthony Blount spy scandal.

Actually, he is—thus, his obsession with Grindelwald, his lack of any known romantic relationship with a woman.

Dumbledore’s what a semicloseted man of his era looks like.

If it’s pre WWII Britain, there was more acceptance of homosexuality than you might think—but it was of the wink-wink, nudge-nudge variety. It was considered quite racy when Noel Coward appeared in Vogue sitting on his bed in his dressing gown. It was not explicitly stated, but known that Coward was gay or “a…