Lolita’s NYC Picks of the Week: 14-20

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  suicideblonde:

  Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Emilia Clarke and Peter Dinklage photographed by Michael Muller at San Diego Comic Con 2011

  
  

• Truncated transcript from today's SCOTUS argument

  courtneymilan:

  For those of you who don’t want to read the transcript of the oral argument in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which is all of 82 pages long, or whose heads exploded when you tried to read it, I’ve written a helpful summary. It’s available below the jump.

  This summary is still fairly long, but it’s shorter and I’ve worked to make things as accessible as possible to those without legal training.

  As a result, there are some places where I might have oversimplified the legal argument. My summarizing might be partially colored by my personal viewpoints, but this is basically what happened, plus or minus the aliens eating children.

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  :Beverage warning:

  KAGAN: So a state could pass a law refusing to recognize a marriage between people who are both over 55?
  COOPER: No, because they could procreate!
  KAGAN: I have checked with my girl parts, and they assure me this is not possible.

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  the-ghost-of-a-smile:

  The Maybe’ (1995) by Cornelia Parker in collaboration with Tilda Swinton.