Good Things Friday (157) and Link Love
February 25, 2022
1. I’d forgotten how I once dreamed of horses. I wanted my life to revolve around dogs and horses. I devoured every story I could, Misty of Chinoteague, The Black Stallion, series of girls and racehorse books that I can’t remember the title of now, to the real stories about Man o’War, Secretariat and Seabiscuit. Watching a short clip of Secretariot brought tears to my eyes remembering how much I loved riding and grooming horses. Watching all of Secretariat’s Triple Crown races turned me into a faucet. I am grateful that my parents indulged paying for my riding lessons if I could get a ride there. I wonder if I can ever do that again.
Challenges this week: So many terrible things happening in the world. Gov Abbott is trying to attack trans kids in Texas, Florida is putting kids at increased risk of abuse, abortion rights are under fire everywhere, and now Russia invading Ukraine. It’s all awful.
Rabbi Danya calls us to action.
Urge your lawmakers to support the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA):
Monday, the Senate has its first vote on WHPA (the Women’s Health Protection Act), the bill that would legalize abortion federally even if SCOTUS overturned Roe. It has already passed the House.
I’m so happy someone shared this video about Ernest Wright scissors. I’d never known anything about them before.
The battle for Eileen Gu: The Olympic freestyle skier and the geopolitics of the exceptional amid an intensifying China-US rivalry. “Citizenship has never saved Asian Americans from racism, nor has loyalty to US Olympic teams. The othering of minority athletes, particularly those of Asian descent, has a lengthy and ugly history within US sports culture. Figure skater Tara Lipinski’s victory over Michelle Kwan in 1998 earned the headline “American beats out Kwan”, despite the fact that both were US citizens. When Mirai Nagasu earned the United States a bronze in the figure skating team event at the 2018 Winter Olympics after landing a triple axel, the New York Times columnist Bari Weiss quoted a line about immigrants from the musical Hamilton approvingly. American gymnast Sunisa Lee, fresh off a gold medal run in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, was told to “go back where she came from” and pepper-sprayed while in Los Angeles in 2021.”
It’s nice to read common sense in the PF world: The Perfect and Sexy Power of Some
My wife had long Covid and killed herself.
How Eleanor Roosevelt Worked to Stop Her Husband Approving Japanese Internment Camps During World War II: “A report by a congressionally-established commission later confirmed that “not a single documented act of espionage, sabotage or fifth column activity was committed” by those Order 9066 targeted. It concluded that “race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership” resulted in a “grave injustice” against them.”
How I Used My Kids’ Obsession With Beyblades to Teach Physics
I cannot adequately describe how hard I laughed at this video:
I want you all to understand this might be the funniest tiktok of an animal I have seen in a long time. pic.twitter.com/aFDK3KXRXT
— Trace the Mighty 🏳️🌈 (@thetidebreaks) February 18, 2022
