Tuesday Reads

The news here isn't that former USSC justice John Paul Stevens made some argument in favor of repealing the second amendment, and he knows the second amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with anybody's "right" to own guns, but that he is still alive to say it.

Stevens, who was appointed by President Ford, is now 97.
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Already long-in-the-tooth Mitt Romney is jockeying for position in the 2020 presidential sweepstakes.
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Obituary:  Actress Delores Taylor, known for co-starring with her late husband Tom Laughlin in the several "Billy Jack" movies of the 1970s, has died after a battle with dementia.  She was 85 years old.

Taylor was married for years and years to Laughlin, who was noted on this blog when he passed away in December of 2013.  They were married some 59 years, which is a hell of an achievement by show business standards.

The "Billy Jack" films were hugely popular in the 1970s.  Laughlin played a love-and-peace guy who loved to beat the shit out of people who didn't agree with him or posed a threat.

Taylor was born in 1932 in Winner, South Dakota. She grew up near the Rosebud Indian Reservation, an experience which she drew from when creating the namesake character of the "Billy Jack" films in the 1970s. 

Taylor starred in three of the four "Billy Jack" films in which she played a teacher whose progressive school is defended by Billy Jack — a half-white, half-Native American Vietnam veteran who had come to hate war. The films became counterculture favorites. 

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I am glad somebody, even if it is a man, calls out transgenderism for the bullshit that it is.
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