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Here's a clip from tonight's Hardball in which the Judicial Confirmation Network's Wendy Long makes the remarkable claim that Brown v. Board of Ed was an originalist court decision. I hadn't heard this talking point before, but apparently the right has been trying to figure out some way to spin Brown as an originalist decision for some time. Keep at it, guys! I'm sure you'll crack the code someday.

On the other hand, given that "originalism" as a judicial philosophy denotes only the median conservative position on any given issue at any given moment in time, I suppose Brown is an originalist position after all...

“In issue #239, a two-page map showed that Kryptonians Of Color had an island all to themselves, which is pretty embarrassing,” says Mark Waid, Boom! Studios Editor-in-Chief, occasional DC Comics writer, and pretty much expert in all things Superman. “I cringe to tell you this, but the Kryptonians of Color were all on ‘Vathlo Island, Home of a Highly Advanced Black Race.’ It wasn't until the mid-70s, when more ‘World of Krypton’ back-up stories ran more regularly, that we really saw any ethnicity whatsoever on the planet.”

Newsarama considers the historic invisibility of Kryptonians of color. Via NeilAlien.