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Today is the 50th anniversary of Brown V. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that desegregated schools in the U.S.

Today is the first day of legal gay marriage in Massachusetts, thanks to the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Thank you, activist judges, for preserving the rights of the minority from the tyranny of the majority. That isn't exceeding your proper job, it is doing your job with courage and conviction.

Despite various personal frustrations (I have a Mandatory Work Party tonight, my Book of Days fic apparently disappeared before it got to justhuman) today is a good day.

Mer

Geek delight

They found the library at Alexandria! Oldest University in the world! How cool is that?

(Link from Neil Gaiman, who actually said "the site of the library at Alexandria", causing my Monday-addled brain to go "it has a web site?")

Mer