I have not.
I saw the movie “On the Basis of Sex” though. That is a good movie.
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It has occurred to me that I am more likely to follow astronomers, astrophysicists and sich than politically oriented individuals. I like the certainty of science.
Do you mean “admire”?
In part, but I have gotten to know some of these individuals.
Enjoy your evening.
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Which 1-800 Psychiatric Astrologer do you call?
psychiatric astrologer…
lmfao
Woman could not own credit cards under their own names.
Well, somebody had to be responsible for their out of control spending.
Times change. A little over a century ago men and women usually died by age 35 0r 40. There were no birth control pills( not a plot by men. LOL ) and most woman had between 6 and 8 children. There were no cars. God, who was a women) was clearly an oppressor.
1970 wasn’t a century ago.
THE ODD COUPLE
It is common knowledge in DC that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the now-late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were close personal friends. They shared a love of opera, went souvenir shopping together when they traveled, and rode an elephant in India with Scalia up front. Their families spent New Year’s Eve together, and when Chief Justice Roberts announced the death of Ginsburg’s husband, Marty, Scalia wept on the bench. When Scalia died in 2016, Ginsburg said, “we were best buddies.”
They never spoke politics or ideology to one another because as one seasoned observer said, “there would be no point.” Scalia himself would say, “if you can’t disagree ardently with your colleagues about some issues of law and yet personally still be friends, get another job. for Pete’s sake.”
On her part, Ginsburg said of Scalia, "as annoyed as you might be about his zinging dissent, he’s so utterly charming, so amusing, so sometimes outrageous, you can’t help but say, “I’m glad he is my friend.” She said she sometimes had to pinch herself to not laugh when he would say something audacious in the courtroom.
In an era when we are being purposefully divided over political and social differences, and friendships and families are being ripped apart in the process, Scalia and Ginsburg were The Odd Couple. They held the deepest respect for each other and kept their disagreements intellectual, not transactional. (Little known fact, it was Scalia that begged Obama to appoint Ellen Kagan to the Court. He wanted her there so he would have someone to argue with in an intelligent manner.)
When he learned of Ginsburg’s passing, Scalia’s son, Christopher, shared the following story from Judge Jeffrey Sutton about an encounter late in his father’s life.
“During one of my last visits with Justice Scalia, I saw striking evidence of the Scalia-Ginsburg relationship. As I got up to leave his chambers, he pointed to two dozen roses on his table and noted that he needed to take them down to ‘Ruth’ for her birthday.
“Wow,” I said, “I doubt I have given a total of twenty-four roses to my wife in almost thirty years of marriage.” “You ought to try it sometime,” Scalia retorted.
Unwilling to let him have the last word, I pushed back: “So what good have all those roses done for you? Name one five-four case of any significance when you have got Justice Ginsburg’s vote.”
Scalia replied, “some things are more important than votes.”
This is what we have lost: two earnest and caring people who could place all differences aside for the sake of friendship and an abiding love for each other.
I say to everyone, be a Nino; be a Ruth. Remember what is good in every person you know even when you have to work a little harder to find it or need to let go of anger or hard feelings. God did not put us here in pre-formed harmony, He put us here with differences so we could find it on our own.
Finally, if you are being unduly influenced by anyone who through their speech and actions encourages you to hate or disregard others because they may be or believe something different from you, tune them out and turn them off. They simply do not have your best interest at heart, and are in the business of keeping you riled up for the sake of their own self-interest and profit.
Again, be a Ruth; be a Nino. Be kind to one another. Choose love over votes. It truly is 'bigger than anything in its way,” especially politics.
For those not well acquainted with military uniforms, something to think about here.
This is RBG’s casket going into the capital building. The leader of the detail is the one with their back to you in the foreground. The leader of the detail will have the honor of standing as her personal guard as she lies in state. Notice the shoulder boards on the uniform - it is an officer. Notice the bun at the neck - she is a female, but that is not all. Notice the baby blue cord on the right shoulder - that is the indicator for “Infantry”, a branch and unit she could not have been part of only five years ago. There is a Ranger tab and Airborne pin on the front of her uniform, in another picture, - she was the first officer and is one of only thirty women who have successfully passed one of the most physically demanding schools the military has, one where 50% of the men drop out in the first week, one that is all but required for the highest levels of military service, one that until 2015 women were barred from. A funeral detail is about the honored dead, not those who honor them, however, it was no accident that this Ranger was leading that detail. Her uniform was a black robe, but the justice was every inch a warrior, and they know their own. They could not have found a better living example of RBG’s life’s work.
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