Nanni

I have a habit of jumping from kick to kick, text wise. There's a lot of stuff I always come back to (Lord of the Rings, The Deryni Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander in general and Westmark in particular, Transformers, Dragon of the Lost Sea, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Star Trek, Doctor Who, CJ Cherryh, L. Baum's OZ books, Fullmetal Alchemist, which is, like Who, newer in the lexicon but ate my brain...) but a lot of things I'll pick up and kind of throw around, like I'm testing the weight of them.

Which is fine.

But it's also SCOTUS Watching season again, and the blogs are all fired up, and the jurisprudence desk references are out, and I made it through the Justice Roberts' dissent on Obergefell, et. al. v. Beshear, Gov. of Kentucky today by pasting the worst bits at guinevak in a chat window and pointing and laughing. Sometimes explaining the more hideously arcane passages, which she took very well, she's so patient with me.


The AHA amica curiae brief is amazing, btw. You can find it here: Brief of Historians of Marriage and the American Historical Association as Amici Curiae In Support of Petitioners.

(I'm not sure if SCOTUS Watching is more or less frustrating than bird watching. I'm only a casual bird watcher. I get the feeling it doesn't get intense until you're heading on massive cross country roadtrips to see birds, and keeping an actual list instead of a series of notes about interesting behaviors you need to tell stories about, and people are contemplating to kill you because you saw the cool bird and didn't even realize and they've been wanting to see that cool bird forever.

...at least the SCOTUS always stays in the same place.)