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Who was Mildred Loving? The African-American woman whose love for a white man struck down the law prohibiting interracial marriage in the United States in 1967, in the wonderfully named Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia. It's because of Mildred Loving - and the ACLU, and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy - that someone like Barack Obama is allowed to ride in a car safely with a white woman, and that his daughters can marry whomever they choose.

Her husband died in a car accident only 8 years after they were allowed to move back to Virginia, but Mrs. Loving is survived by two children, eight grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren. Those kids are the future of America, I hope.

1. cerebralpaladin: "So, one of the best meta-moments of Iron Man is when they play the Black Sabbath song over the credits.
Me: Huh?
CP: Duh-duh-da-da-duh....
Mac, in his high chair: Duh-duh-da-da-duh!



2. CP: "Right. Like the Gay Bar Association."
Me: "Um. I kinda hope that lawyers actually call it something different. Because there could be some confusion there."



3. Rereading, randomly, old quotes from the D&D game Stone Tablet, and coming across my favorite personal quote:
kidsnide: "Jerrit's goddess is the goddess of beauty and cheap sex."
fajitas: What's her name again?
Me, playing Jerrit: "I can never remember the next morning."



In other questions to ponder, does anyone have any idea how to stop getting seriously shocked by picking one's child off a plastic slide? I got a shock strong enough to black out for a second or two today.