"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Fighting for hearts and minds
After the Newton school shooting I posted a couple of tweets using the hashtag #FuckTheNRA. When I originally set up my Twitter account I foolishly checked the box that allowed other users to contact me by email. I’ve now fixed that, but not before the gun nuts found me. The pro-mass murder emails I’ve been […]
YCRT! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. Is your child’s teacher thinking about sex? Right this minute? Smutty-minded parents in Ohio clamor for a high school teacher to be fired after she writes a novel with sex in it Same thing (Pennsylvania, last year) Michigan educators stand firm against removing Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass […]
No need to explain, I think:
I should write about our Christmas with the kids in Las Vegas, but when I think of it I’m happy, and as with most things happy, words are slow to come and inadequate when they do. When I see right-wingers getting up to their old shenanigans, on the other hand, I see red and words […]
Sorry for the incoherence, but I just don’t know what can be done about gun violence in America. If some new disease was killing tens of thousands of people each year we’d be doing something about it, just as we do with existing diseases. Traffic accidents kill a horrific number of people but we’ve been […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post about censorship and banned books. You can’t say that on the internet! Well then, why don’t we build an internet where we can say what we please? Until then, we’ll have to rely on Auden’s points of light, flashing out wherever the Just exchange their messages. I think we all […]
Yesterday, Congress voted to eliminate the word “lunatic” from federal laws and regulations dealing with mental health. The lone dissenter was this guy here, Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Imbecile). Personally I don’t have a problem with the word. I probably wouldn’t use it around an actual lunatic, but hell, we all know what it means and […]
What world? Planet X, the world one of my embittered Missouri relatives inhabits. The last post appeared this morning. Most people climb down from the ledge after a night’s sleep. Ain’t happening on Planet X, clearly. Collective farms, sharia law, gun confiscation, Obamaphones, black helicopters, FEMA camps … dreadful things are happening on Planet X. […]