[Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1977. Photograph by Lynn Gilbert. From Wikimedia Commons. Notice the poster for Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.]
This year of nightmares just got much worse: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s Feminist Icon, Is Dead at 87” (The New York Times).
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There’s now an obituary from the American Civil Liberties Union.
Friday, September 18, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020)
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2020 is proving with a vengeance that what Molly Ivins said is true:
ReplyDelete"It can always get worse."
But there's a rider:
“We should be cheerful about the here and now on the principle that it can always get worse, and then we will never have been cheerful at all.”
bookpage.com/interviews/8026-molly-ivins-nonfiction
That makes (strange) sense!
ReplyDeleteI think of Edgar from King Lear: “The worst is not / So long as we can say ‘This is the worst.’”