Literally Nothing We Can Do

The warning I want to put on this is "don't read this if you have daughters, because it will make you want to hide them from the world," but that warning is rather too emotional to be useful. So: this is about sexual assault and is potentially triggering, and considerably distressing. (  'You think that was assault?'  )

Good News

So, when I got to work, this is the news item I had wanted to write about, because it was an all-too-rare piece of good news. My post is going to be much shorter and less cheery due to being bummed out by the last news item, but otoh that means I need this good news all the more.

During a softball game that would gain the winning team a shot at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference title, Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University hit a three-run home run, but tore her ACL doing it. Because of the umpires' ruling that a pinch-runner would diminish the gains of her hit, two players from the opposing team (Mallory Holtman & Liz Wallace) carried Ms. Tucholsky around the bases, allowing her home run to fully count, and WOU to win the game.

Now that's sportsmanship.

*cheers them all on*

Oh no, fandom, not again.

Godwin weeps, indeed.
( What I'm on about this time. )

Farewell, Mrs. Loving

Mrs. Mildred Loving and her husband Richard challenged Virginia's laws against interracial marriage, and their battle led to the Supreme Court's overturning of those laws.

ANYTimes article (Thanks, cereta!) and Loving vs Virginia at Wikipedia. And a PDF of her statement last year supporting same-sex marriage.

Thank you, Mrs. Loving, for your courage in love.

*blows WD a kiss because, not least thanks to the Lovings, I can*