Basically they’ve discriminated against so many women that it would be too difficult for their hundreds of lawyers to come up with a bullshit defense against the scary female army.

They actually did make a military comparison:

“the class is larger than the active-duty personnel in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard combined—making it the largest employment class action in history by several orders of magnitude.”

They’re under attack! h/t Kevin

robot-heart-politics:

I didn’t want to reblog the entire post, but the anecdote about a five year old white girl who is enraged because a BLACK BOY took her swing says everything you could want to say about race relations in America without having to go into some long, drawn-out lecture about power structures and latent racism, etc. Read it.

The music is annoying and it’s mostly boring beauty shots but Clijster’s splits move is interesting, I never knew her method for getting up from those. via kottke

Usually it’s kids that make me not want kids but sometimes it’s the parents.

Some undergraduate officials see in parents’ separation anxieties evidence of the excesses of modern child-rearing. “A good deal of it has to do with the evolution of overinvolvement in our students’ lives,” said Mr. Dougharty of Grinnell. “These are the baby-on-board parents, highly invested in their students’ success. They do a lot of living vicariously, and this is one manifestation of that.”

(via libraryland)

One day I’ll do this for a hardcover. Once I get a ‘thermal binding device’. via swissmiss

Towards the end of WWII, the Germans were fighting off England and the US in the west and, with Finland, the Russians in the east. This is an intensive Flash map presentation with primary resource accounts of the invasion of Eastern Europe/Russia by the Nazis that inevitably lead to their defeat. I spent a night/morning going through it all.