RBG

I do not always remember to listen to the Sunday Puzzle, Will Shortz’s weekly stint on National Public Radio, but I happened to remember this week and although the on-line game was rather difficult, next week’s challenge took me fewer than 5 seconds. See if you also get it quickly:

This week's challenge comes from Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Mich. Think of a two-word phrase a child might shout when walking in the front door. Rearrange the letters and add an "E" at the end, and you get the next two words the child might shout. These are both common expressions. What are they?

On Sunday afternoon we saw the documentary “RBG,” a new film about United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I have to admit I did not know all that much about Justice Ginsburg. If you had asked me to name a few of the Supreme Court decisions in which she had played a key role, I could not have done so. But many of the key cases she argued before and judged during her Supreme Court appointment in 1993 have had enormous impact on the lives of women, because she was able to make an argument that the equal protection clause of the 14^th Amendment could be used to inhibit discrepancies in hiring and public policy.  

The film also spends a lot of time examining her personal life, particularly her marriage to Martin Ginsburg, a successful tax attorney in his own right to whom she was married for 63 years until his death in 2010. His admiration for her and his devotion to her career was impressive by todays’ standards, and even more so by the standards of the 1960s.

If you have a chance to see this film, I highly recommend it. Justice Ginsburg is quite an intense person, but there are still plenty of moments of humor and sweetness, particularly from her husband and children. I am glad we will have this film to share with our grandchildren – boys and girls - when they are old enough to appreciate it.

Love,

Rebecca