My Cup of Hillary Love Runneth Over
First, although my week has been kind of boring case-wise (show up, you effing defendants! I want to do more than mark down a continuance on the file...), today I got a full-on tour of the jail. The showers, the cells (unlocked, with inmates), the intake, the infirmary, even the food. Not the least disturbing are all of the signs stating that, although official prison policy discourages sex between inmates, inmates are encouraged to use condoms and cannot be punished for having them on their person. Which is a good policy, but still slightly disturbing for some reason. Also today I handled drugs and learned more about packaging and cutting them. Heroin binds you up so a good dealer will cut it with a laxative. In case you were wondering.
In any event, I definitely cried through the second half of my gal's speech last night. It started somewhere around "my mother was born at a time when women couldn't vote...and my daughter voted for her mother for president" and continued through the Harriet Tubman quotes. It was, quite possibly, one of the best speeches I've ever heard. I <3 her so much.
Even better, though, was this quote that I FINALLY heard from Chuck Todd this morning...I watch Morning Joe on MSNBC every morning because the beauty of a studio is, you can get ready all in the same room and you may as well have TV on. Anyway, Chuck Todd said this, which I offer in response to the "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" line that keeps getting thrown around:
"I think we've all underestimated why many of these women are still so angry. It has been twenty-four years since Geraldine Ferraro was on the Democratic ticket. So unless McCain picks a woman, which is unlikely--that is an entire generation of women that has grown up watching that glass ceiling turning into cement, not cracking"
In any event, I definitely cried through the second half of my gal's speech last night. It started somewhere around "my mother was born at a time when women couldn't vote...and my daughter voted for her mother for president" and continued through the Harriet Tubman quotes. It was, quite possibly, one of the best speeches I've ever heard. I <3 her so much.
Even better, though, was this quote that I FINALLY heard from Chuck Todd this morning...I watch Morning Joe on MSNBC every morning because the beauty of a studio is, you can get ready all in the same room and you may as well have TV on. Anyway, Chuck Todd said this, which I offer in response to the "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" line that keeps getting thrown around:
"I think we've all underestimated why many of these women are still so angry. It has been twenty-four years since Geraldine Ferraro was on the Democratic ticket. So unless McCain picks a woman, which is unlikely--that is an entire generation of women that has grown up watching that glass ceiling turning into cement, not cracking"