According to the NYTimes "#MitchMcConnell Says #MarjorieTaylorGreen's '#LoonyLies''Are a "#CanceronGOP." But they're just a metastasis of the cancer he and his brought into the GOP long ago. #GOP #Lies

Happy Imbolc/Bridget's Day/ Candlemas/ Groundhog Day Housekeeping and Snow: Happy Imbolc! Housekeeping and Snow: anniefinch.com/housekeeping-a…

For me the most astonishing thing about the #Atlantamurders (by no means the most significant, but the most astonishing) is the #presidentialproclamation I learned about by looking out my window in Chicago and seeing the flag at the museum across the street at half staff.

Biden said Dr. Rachel Levine“will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic —no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.” What's missing from this list of identity categories?

Whether you think of your journey in these days as out of the narrow place toward the promised land, or out of the darkness of the tomb toward the morning of resurrection, may the wait not be too long, the journey not too hard, and may you soon have good news to share.

When Prince Phillip was Chancellor of Cambridge, I was the Vice Chancellor's guest, with my choice of guest bedrooms, 1 with a view, another where he stayed on official visits, with a panic button behind a tapestry. I passed up the opportunity to sleep in Prince Phillip's bed.

As we celebrate female athletes at the Olympics, don't forget their very long and rich history in which the founding of the modern Olympic movement was actually a low point: Polo in ancient China, running in ancient Greece, boxing in XVIIIc. England... See chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/journal_articl…

SF bishop Cordileone to anti-abortion Catholics: Send Pelosi a rose on Therese of Lisieux's feast. Therese said more about wanting to be a priest than abortion, so instead Catholics should send Pope Francis a rose to motivate a change in his heart on the ordination of women.

WATCH: Prof. Mary Anne Case discusses the leaked draft Dobbs opinion on Crain's Chicago Business Juice Week in Review. buff.ly/3MhxvtP

Still looking for a coherent account of how the Supreme Court's recent free exercise jurisprudence survives if substantive due process is no longer a thing.

MO State Rep. Phil Christofanelli (R) criticizes fellow GOP Rep. Ann Kelley's anti-LGBT school bill. PC: Who is Martha Washington? AK: [George Washington's] wife. PC: With your bill, how could that be mentioned in the classroom? AK: That's not sexual orientation. PC: Really?

Signs Resources for Trans Rights and Justice features FREE online access to scholarship by Cameron Awkward-Rich, @m_balaguera, Talia Mae Bettcher, Mary Anne Case and many more! Check it out: signsjournal.org/signs-resource…

Remembering the OG childless cat lady, the subject of my Yale senior essay, Marie le Jars de Gournay, who defended the equality of the sexes in the early XVIIc. and got Cardinal Richelieu to give her cat, as well as herself, a pension.

Ozzy belongs in heaven if for nothing else then for The Osbournes, the naughties MTV reality series which showed that, like the LGBTQ community, the "Satanic" left could display the sort of family values the Christian right preached about more often than practiced.