Scaramucci Says Trump Is Turning Into a Racist
Turning into? Is he calling us from the year 1953? — Read on politicalwire.com/2019/07/16/scaramucci-says-trump-is-turning-into-a-racist/
A Few Behind the Scenes Notes on the Making of Stanny Couldn’t Make It
"Stanny Couldn't Make It" came out today in Across the Margins, and, as my practice will be with stories in this series--I'm currently calling it the Zezverse--come out, I have…
Mugs and Suckers
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awY1MRlMKMc?ecver=2] Last year, much to my surprise, Donald Trump, in all his appalling ignorance, taught me what may be the most important lesson I could've learned in 2016. You…
I Understand You
Hey, you. White dude with the red cap. You with the gun rack in your pickup's rear window. You who live in a white rural town where people are real and eat…
Willis Carto, Sugar Daddy to Holocaust Deniers, Is Dead
From the SPLC: According to reports from white nationalists, Willis Carto, a man active on the radical right for more than 60 years, has died, aged 89. Carto was one…
The Neo-Nazi (Who Wants To Be) Next Door
I've seen documentaries about Neo-Nazis and skinheads many times before, so nothing in this one, posted today at The New York Times, comes as a huge shock. The subject here,…
Rough Week
Sorry to have been away for a bit. Early last Tuesday morning, my digestive system suddenly decided that it was Tommy DeSimone and that the rest of me was six weeks late…
“Something very worrying is happening in France.”
Writing Summer of Long Knives meant spending a lot of time immersed in the crimes of the Nazi regime. It would be pleasant to imagine that those crimes, and the mindset…
Stupid Things Great Writers Say
Let's start with V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Laureate of 2001: I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Today is the anniversary of the birth of the following people (among others, naturally): Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Auguste Rodin, Charles Manson, and Neil Young. So, as you can see, some…