President Obama’s remarks at Selma
He was met at the podium and introduced by Representative John Lewis, who was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge 50 years ago as he participated in the first attempt to march across the bridge.
Archive of entries posted on March 2015
Selma remembered
By US Representative John Lewis. Read his entire Twitter stream for photographs and memories. I thought I saw death. I thought I was going to die. #Selma50 pic.twitter.com/AhM8ujpsYi — John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) March 7, 2015
Oklahoma should be embarrassed
It has several times voted for Senator James Inhofe, most recently seen flipping a snowball to an aide to prove that climate change was a myth. No, I’m not kidding. Watch: From The Huffington Post: Inhofe doesn’t misunderstand the science; rather, he doesn’t need science as his guide, because God has already assured him there …
Knives?
In 200-plus years there have only been eight US Ambassadors who have been killed while in office, six in armed attacks and two in plane crashes. Mark Lippert, America’s Ambassador to South Korea, won’t be the ninth, thankfully. But he was the victim of a knife attack yesterday. One doesn’t ordinarily think of South Korea …
Can the Supreme Court be trusted?
Who knows? The adjectival clause “established by the state” in context seems perfectly clear to me: “state” means “the Federal government.” But now the Nine Wise Souls, as Charlie Pierce likes to call them, get to decide the fate of some millions of people and their tenuous grip on middle class status. If it decides …
Idaho follies
Seven of Idaho’s finest GOP state legislators declined to attend the invocation at the state capitol Tuesday. Why? Because it was going to be given by a Hindu. State Sen. Steve Vick (R) told the Spokesman-Review on Monday that he would walk out of the invocation, delivered by Hindu leader Rajan Zed. He explained that …
Spots in Space!
There’s a mystery out there. Ceres is a dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter, the biggest object in the asteroid belt at 950km in diameter. Two bright spots have appeared in a 92km-wide crater on its surface. The US space agency’s Dawn probe is bearing down on the dwarf planet and on Friday will be …
Warsh, warsh, warsh
Sadly, my Sunday did not include this. The Detergents were three eighteen-year-old kids. One of them, Ron Dante, grew up and was the producer of many of Barry Manilow’s biggest hits of the 70s.