It is unacceptable to pick someone based on their identity. Unless that identity is 'young' and 'right-wing.'
Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring from the Supreme Court in a move with unambiguous political timing after a period where Breyer tried to downplay the influence of partisan politics on the high court. But things have already moved beyond Breyer himself to the question of who will replace him, a process that will do little to buttress Breyer's onetime fantasies of apolitical adjudication of the law. During the 2020 campaign, President Joe Biden pledged to nominate a Black woman to the big bench, and on Thursday afternoon he confirmed that he will follow through on that promise. It hasn't yet happened, to be clear, which hasn't stopped the pre-backlash to the future event from rolling in. A family who founded pharmaceutical companies, a drug addiction crisis, an apology tour... sounds familiar, right? 'What I find really interesting is that my books are heavily banned throughout the U.S.,' he said. 'But it's only an issue once China changes the end of a movie?' Caer Maiko Ferguson and Sharon Yeung, two bartending friends in Austin, threw a Lunar New Year party in 2019 with a goal of "super Asian cocktails" at their pop-up, Daijoubu. They served a banchan martini with MSG tincture and lemongrass shochu, a baijiu-and-sherry cocktail with fish sauce caramel, shots of a sake cocktail served in miniature Yakult bottles, and a frozen drink with rum, Darjeeling tea liquor, condensed milk, Adzuki beans, and Asian cookies. For starters. "We wanted to create a space not based in speakeasy history, which is a very white American story," says Ferguson over the phone from Austin as she preps for this year's Lunar New Year. She is working on including a boba tea with bergamot liqueur-infused tapioca bubbles, her joy palpable: "I've never felt more like I was being myself." Chocolate and flowers are classic—but not exactly original. The style is as timeless—and timely—as ever. When I tuned into The Book of Boba Fett this week, I was thrilled to discover that Episode Five was a backdoor episode of The Mandalorian with Boba Fett nowhere in sight. Probably searching for space coconuts or whatever the hell. In a single episode of television, I feel like I lived through another season of The Mandalorian all over again. I bounced between planets with Mando. Jumped in the droid port of his new ship and raced through the sands of Tatooine. My heart melted like molten Beskar when he longingly looked at his present to Grogu on the commuter ship. That's when it hit me, like a Darksaber blow to the gut. The Mandalorian is the mainline Star Wars story now. |
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