"Immigration reform now!" would be a sign I could stomach. This, not so much. Source: NYT.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Even specialer!
Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible (NYT)
Though, truth be told, I wish someone had forced me to read it when I was in school...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Monday, June 10, 2024
The Dud Avocado
Elaine Dundy's first novel was published in the year I was born (1958). The NYRB Classics reissue features a rather risqué cover (by their standards) that might have caught your eye in your favorite bookstore. It is a very good book, a coming-of-age dramedy narrated in the first person by our hero, Sally Jay Gorce, who tells of her misadventures as a curious young American woman in Paris in the 1950s. To describe it as "proto-feminist" would be too strong, but the book is matter-of-fact and sympathetic about the inequities, double standards, and serious hazards a sexually active and free-willed young woman might face in Paris at that time, or in any city at any time. The plot is great, Sally Jay is great, and the prose has a way with vernacular that will sometimes whack you upside the head... the sure sign of a great writer:
... some pretty fancy women came by, and yet I couldn't figure out what he specifically liked about them. Variety seemed to be the only rule. There was something impersonal in the way he treated them. I could see he didn't love any of them, that he didn't even particularly like them; he—I don't know what he them'd.
"I don't know what he them'd." Whack!
Litmus test
Hey Republican / MAGA! Do you repudiate the Colorado GOP's "God Hates Flags"? How about what David French and family have endured? If not, no more civility... we are finished. Feel free to ask me where I draw the line on my side. Maybe I'm just as bigoted and mean-spirited as you are. I think not.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
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