Conservative Advice To GOP: Don’t Legislate, Focus On Scandals (NPR.org) In the autumn of 2010 I decided to stop following politics so closely, in part to focus on my fiction writing, but also because I was getting sick and tired of all the Tea Party nonsense and could see the handwriting on the wall in [...]
Archive of posts filed under the rhetoric category.
Screw the “Silly Season”
Benghazi Schools Obama In The Politics Of Scandal (npr.org) The beginning of May is the start of what’s known as the “silly season” of American politics. Most states have held their primaries, and until we get closer to the election — around September or October — there’s a sense that there won’t be much in [...]
Women Deserve Better from Facebook
What Facebook Continues To Tell Us About Violence Against Women (Fem 2.0) Earlier this year, my Facebook timeline was flooded with my friends reposting an image of a breast cancer survivor’s chest tattoo that Facebook repeatedly deleted because the image of a woman’s naked chest technically violated their nudity policy. Facebook eventually relented, but it [...]
Not This Time
Peter King calls for “increased surveillance” of Muslims after Boston (salon.com) Republicans Urge Obama To Treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Suspect, As ‘Enemy Combatant’ (Huffington Post) Thanks to my old friend from Backwash.com, Val, I knew about the bombs that went off in Boston before television-watchers did. She retweeted some of the first tweets about the [...]
Why Derpy Still Matters
I have a tendency to argue myself into a stalemate when it comes to a number of difficult issues. I’d like to think that I’m being a good person by giving thoughtful consideration to the needs and opinions of others as I try to figure things out, but there’s a lot of evidence that sometimes [...]
