rainstorm

As the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her dissent: Throwing out preclearance “is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

In a world beset by climate change, partisan division and $20 Erewhon smoothies, some seem to yearn for a kind of Woodstockian simplicity — being able to roll around in the mud during a rainstorm — but to look like a million dollars while they do it because, you know, Instagram.

Waving a kiss to family high in the grandstand with clothes sodden from Friday night's south Wales rainstorm, the 45-year-old would have been equally soaked in sweat such was the way he put everything into his first 90 minutes in charge.

At 16, he was the United States’ second-youngest athlete in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, where he matched a personal best in the high jump despite competing during a rainstorm.

Several hours later, feeling out of sorts from lack of sleep, I got out of the minivan in the middle of a rainstorm.