It’s already there but in a special font that only black people can see.

I’ve posted this here before so forgive the repetition. A note written by her husband of 56 years days before he died. Every time I see the graciousness and humanity in Ms. Ginsburg, I think of this note. He truly was her counterpart. Her rock, her love and her biggest supporter. I also have tears well up every time.

UGH

HEY THAT’S ME! I MADE THAT! True life, I cried a little bit when I got it in the mail, and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen my father look at me with such pride.

She should’ve sent this card instead.

Dear Justice Ginsburg, Thank YOU for your artistry and caring. You’ve made this great country a vastly greater place. Sincerely, Everyone

It’s crazy how many people don’t realize how truly, endemically poor most of the south is— and rural poverty is a very different experience than the urban poverty that is more typical up north; I have lived among both. People have this image in their head of Gone With the Wind slavers’ mansions and that kind of wealth…

I’m also “a pinko commie tree-hugger” living in SC. I also love this place despite the ridiculous summer heat. I have a long “heritage” in SC that includes some dead Confederates. My people may have made it worse, but I’m going to try to make it better. (Rural south poor is POOR. Most people don’t get that until they…

Are those ice cubes or sticks of butter?

The best thing I’ve heard so far from the pro-Confederate flag bunch is last night on All Things Considered/NPR. The reporter was interviewing protesters outside the State Capital when it was announced that Gov. Haley had signed the bill and the flag was coming down, and one man stated, “next thing they’re going to do…

I appreciate that this article isn’t the usual wall of negativity that is Jez’s usual reporting style about the supposedly monolithic hissing snakepit of bigotry that is this part of the country. There’s a lot of good down here, a lot of culture that “the north” has co-opted as their own... there’s also a lot of…

slavery more like yayvery

Tell me you just casually walked over there to share your “extra” apple pie (even if you had to pry it from Aunt Maisy’s arthritic hands) with the neighbors. All neighborly like. And not stalkerlike.

I like when people try to figure out why bad movies flopped.

I didn’t know he had been honored with a Crystal Buttplug.

Matt Damon’s face, I hope?

You ever hear somebody lie to someone on the phone and they be lying SO smooth that you’re like, DAMN, and forever look at them askance? This happened to me with someone I emphatically trust, but...now..damn...I don’t know..

i feel like, moving forward, everyone should reference Ben Affleck’s tramp stamp in every story about Ben Affleck.

WAS HE THO

I had 4th of July across the street from Anna Farris’s parent’s house and the entire time it was like ‘welp, better go look out the window to see if Chris Pratt is walking by’