One of the many reasons why it’s perverse for the Supreme Court to bless de facto racial gerrymandering is that a major driver of racially polarized voting is the Republican Party’s wholesale abandonment of any meaningful effort to appeal to Black voters.

It took over six months, but I finally got my first polite “Nice to meet you! You’re from… Canada?”

Me, reading what questions the Republican-appointed justices asked during oral argument in the latest challenge to the Voting Rights Act:

“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” might not be such a bad basis for a system of government after all?