FORBIDDEN WORDS AND PHRASES, 2024
AdultingAll The Feels Alpha Male BidenflationBidenomics Body Count CheugyChronivoreCletus SafariCringe (adj)Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy (particularly when applied to something that is in fact Arduous...
View ArticleTrump's inmate number scans to 867-5309
Fulton County, get me some justiceFani Willis—Please, you can trust us This new one isn't like the charges before I see the handwriting there on the wall Donnie, she's got your number You're going down...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: "This is Florida"
(May be sung to “This is Halloween”, from THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CRISTMAS) Right-wing fascists frothing with hate Vowing to "make America great" It's already far too late If you're in the Sunshine State...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, June 2022
I found myself reading a lot of YA this month, in two categories: (1) Nominees for the Hugo/Lodestar award for YA, and (2) books that the Shit People are trying to get removed from school and public...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, March 2022
IRON WIDOW, by XIRAN JAY ZHAO I suspect that this one will be the first of the year's Hugo-nominated novels that I read this year; possibly the winner; we'll find out eventually (EDIT: The 2022 Hugo...
View ArticleMONTHLY BOOK POST, FEBRUARY 2022
MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON (How we almost lost our democracy and still could), by ADAM SCHIFF I had to wait a long time on the hold request list for one of the library's several copies to get to me. By...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, January 2022
DIGITAL MINIMALISM, BY CAL NEWPORT Another book for people who might be concerned about the impact of social media on their lives, a little less strident than last month's TEN ARGUMENTS FOR DELETING...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, December 2020
Critical Race Theory: Warriors Don't Cry, by Melba Pattillo Beals "The crowd is closing in. They've broken the barricades. The kids are trapped in here.....You're right. We may have to let the mob...
View ArticleFORBIDDEN WORDS, 2022
Accidental ShootingAmbitchousArtisinal Back to normal Be the bigger personBiden's Katrina Billionaire tears Both partiesBoycott votingButtering the catCancel cultureCocksocketConversating Critical Race...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, November 2021
Words of wisdom: Unpopular Essays, by Bertrand Russell"The idea that falsehood is edifying is one of the besetting sins of those who draw up educational schemes. I should not myself consider that a man...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, October 2021
SuperMom: I'm Not Starfire, by Mariko Tamaki and Yoshi Yoshitani"And this...is Claire. What can you say about Claire that doesn't make you sound like the voice-over for a teen movie?"I reflexively put...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, September 2021
Pin the Tail on Your Inner Donkey: Awaken the Giant Within, by Tony RobbinsWhat you're doing is not producing the result you want, and you have to change your approach. Remember that your perceptions...
View ArticleOregon Democrats cave to the Republican minority in redistricting, preserve...
Today, the Oregon legislature, with a 3/5 majority in both houses, and the ability to control the redistricting process decided, in the interest of bipartisanship, to make traitor Dem Kurt Schraeder’s...
View ArticleOregon Republicans rescue Democrats from themselves in redistricting fight
Politics in Oregon mirrors politics in DC: Democrats: Oh please, please negotiate with us! We'll pre-emptively redraw the Congressional boundaries in your favor so you don't have to! Republicans: No....
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, August 2021
Critical Race Theory: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson"America is an old house. We can never declare the work over. Wind, flood, drought, and human upheavals batter a structure that is already fighting...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, July 2021
Just The Warts: American Rule (How a nation conquered the world but failed its people), by Jared Yates SextonThere was a sense that capitalism had all but conquered the United States, a feeling that...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, June 2021
A New York State of Mind: the City We Became, by NK JemisinThey hit Second Avenue at Spanish Harlem. Working-class neighborhood, late on a weeknight; Bronca's unsurprised to see that the streets are...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, May 2021
Dem Bones Goan' Rise Again: Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn MuirAll I can say is that it was complicated back in Canaan House, and sometimes a cute older girl shows you a lot of attention, because she's...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: The Wreck of the SS Homophobic
The Legend lives on from the Sasquatch on downIn the Washington lake they call MosesAnd Karma, they say, on Memorial DayComes much earlier than one supposes!Memorial Day in Grant County, they sayWas a...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, April 2021
The Savage Noble: Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the Apes stroked her soft hair and tried to comfort and quiet her as Kala had him, when, as a little ape, he had been frightened...
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