Tag Archives: Virginia

You guys, life in FXBG is about to get A LOT better

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Will

Holy crap, you guys. This is HUGE, for FXBG and all of Virginia. As a Fredericksburger, sabbaticallish VRE commuter, and urbanist, I’ve been half-following this story.  Over the past couple of Democratic administrations in Richmond, the state has been planning to increase … Continue reading →

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Sowing Chaos in Virginia

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Will

Today the Fourth Circuit in Richmond denied the Prince William County Clerk Michele McQuigg’s request that they stay their decision finding Virginia’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional.  This is obviously great and welcome news, not least because the Family Foundation of Virginia thinks … Continue reading →

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Welcoming Us Home

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Will

It’s been two weeks since Brian and I got married, and a little over a week and a half since we returned to Virginia from where we got married in New York. We went back north to get married because … Continue reading →

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A Very Special Virginia Anti-Marriage Equality Argument

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Will

David Cohen in Slate has brought word of what he calls “The Worst Argument Ever Made Against Gay Marriage,” made last week before the Fourth Circuit in Richmond.  The occasion was the state’s appeal of the Eastern District of Virginia’s decision … Continue reading →

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Fxbg’s Landscape of Slave-Made Capitalism

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Will

  This recent post by Julia Ott, a historian of capitalism at the New School, articulates forcefully a point that can’t be repeated enough: in a very real sense, slaves were the capital that made the emergence of capitalism possible. … Continue reading →

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Carter’s Grove is For Sale

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Will

Does anyone want to give me $15 million?  All I found under the couch this morning was a dime.  I ask because Carter’s Grove, a plantation built on the James River just below Williamsburg in early 1750s for the descendants of Robert … Continue reading →

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