In announcing the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against North Carolina, filed on Monday in response to the state’s so-called “bathroom bill,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch gave what Mark Joseph Stern calls an “astonishing speech.” “Lynch is wry and unassuming in person; on Monday, she was as fierce and passionate as any member of the pantheon of American civil rights defenders,” Stern writes. “Her remarks are certainly the most important speech ever delivered on the topic of trans rights by any government official.”
Which lucky Republican might end up as Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate? Ben Mathis-Lilley has the list, which he calls “a subjective guide to the individuals whose names have come up elsewhere in the press as possible Trump running mates.” (There are also jokes.)
Melinda Wenner Moyer gets her almost-2-year-old to bed by 7 p.m. every night without fail; her 5-year-old is tucked in tight by 7:30. The extra effort is worth it, she swears. “My kids are happier and more fun to be around when I stick with a consistent and early bedtime,” Moyer writes. “And ever since I’ve started looking at the science, I’ve become only more convinced that the earlier you say night-night, the better.”
On the blog of the bell hooks institute, hooks has published a piece critiquing Beyoncé’s Lemonade. “No matter how hard women in relationships with patriarchal men work for change, forgive, and reconcile, men must do the work of inner and outer transformation if emotional violence against black females is to end,” hooks writes. “We see no hint of this in Lemonade.” (Here’s Janet Mock’s response to some aspects of the hooks piece, on Facebook.)
“As with any new and novel technology that most people are unfamiliar with, a lot of confusion, misunderstanding, and outright BS surrounds drones,” Faine Greenwood observes. Some things I thought I knew about drones, before reading Greenwood’s list of six common drone-related misconceptions: Drone delivery of consumer goods is right around the corner. Nope! And creepsters are, right now, using drones to spy on their neighbors. Not likely!
For fun: Myles McNutt is obsessed with obviously-empty coffee cups on television shows. Obsessed.
Can’t unsee that,
Rebecca
