A handful of sociopolitical links.

[browngirl]

All of which deserve more time and thought than I have to give them at the moment.

To start on a cheerful note: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-to-cheers-samesex-marriages-resume-in-california-20130628,0,4591546.story To cheers, same-sex marriages resume in California *adds my cheers*

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/06/27/2227641/chick-fil-as-dan-cathy-doma-decision-represents-sad-day-for-our-nation/ "Chick-fil-A’s Dan Cathy: DOMA Decision Represents ‘Sad Day For Our Nation’" There are people who eat at Chick-Fil-A to support their free speech, or something. Personally, the thought of voluntarily choosing to financially support them in funding anti-LGBT organizations turns my stomach.

http://azephirin.tumblr.com/post/54078192731/ziusik-ihavealotoffeelings-micropolisnyc Don Russell and Charles Schaeffer have been together for 62 years.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/natashavc/ohio-just-passed-an-unprecedented-anti-abortion-bi-94kb Will Ohio’s Gov. Veto New Extreme Anti-Abortion Measure? The measure freshly passed by Ohio's legislature is beyond draconian.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_literacy_test_louisiana.html A sample "literacy test" from 1964. I wonder what the 2014 version will look like, unless we get a move on. (with thanks to rmd)

http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/517984.html How to Report Sexual Harassment by Elise Matthesen, with thanks to redbird.

To finish on a cheerful note: http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/53279719036/unknown-formerly-att-johann-zoffany-dido I am so going to go see the movie made of Dido Elizabeth Belle's life.

And now, to get stuff done with my evening.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

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[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*cackles in delight*

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

That's a helluva test. I'd expect a 1% or less pass rate on it, if it were given in ideal conditions to people who had completed high school.

[ron_newman]

I might be able to get all those questions correct, but not in 10 minutes!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I would be very, very impressed. I don't think I could, because I'm honestly not sure what some of them are even *asking*.

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

Some of them are very definitely ambiguous, yes.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

From what I can see, some of the questions are all but meaningless.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

wow, that ms belle was a beauty! i look forward to the biopic.

[ron_newman]

I'm curious if there are people alive today who can trace their ancestry to her, and how that family has done over the intervening two centuries.

[gingicat]

Apparently research has been done:
"By the use of census returns, parish registers the civil registration system and wills it has been possible to trace Dido’s descendants right down to 1975. However, this is where it ends as her great-great grandson, Harold Davinier died in South Africa without having had children."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/02/27/insideout_abolition_special_feature.shtml

[gingicat]

Miss Belle is being played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw from Undercovers. How cool is that?!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I KNEW I RECOGNIZED HER OMG OMG OMG *runs around shrieking in delight*