Rosa Parks passed away Monday night. Amanda commemorates by recalling a short essay by Sarah Vowell, and hosting her own Rosa Parks-off. Go and contribute your own utterly inappropriate analogy to Parks.
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The Staff was really just a big stick…Anyway, it was capped by an elaborate headpiece with a carving of the sun at the top. What you had to do was take the Staff to a special map room in Tanis--it had the whole city laid out in miniature on the floor. When you placed the Staff in a certain spot in this room, at a certain time of day, the sun would shine through a hole here in the headpiece and then send a beam of light down here—to the map--giving you the location of the Well of the Souls...
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I liked Stephen Colbert's commemoration; that because of Parks we now have a phrase for the first time a minority does something for the first time. "And now _____ is the Rosa Parks of space colonization."
Also, I love the Colbert Report.
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