The Rise of the Old South

When repealing the 14th Amendment was merely a talking point of the fringe right, like many others I dismissed it as lunacy that could never gain any traction.  I mean, who in their right mind, in 2010, would want to return to the days of Dred Scott and de jure segregation, separate but equal and [...]

Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Program

Minnesota is having a rare May heat wave and it has broken my brain.  So, until I can put it back together again, here’s what else I’ve been up to:
1.  One of the purportedly best employers for women gets hit with hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for persistent gender discrimination in pay and [...]

Thank God For the Nuns

If I learned anything in the six years I attended Catholic school it was this: do not piss off the nuns.  Ever.  Under any circumstances.  Even the younger, kinda-relateable nuns.  The fact that, in their push to roll back women’s health and welfare back to the middle ages the Evangelicals and Catholic misogynists have done [...]