Clik here to view.
Won’t get fooled again
I was going to post something light, whimsical, even. Then I read the paper. The report on abuse in Irish schools was released earlier today, and offers up yet more horrifying stories of beatings,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Whisper words of wisdom
Allow a moment of sympathy for the Roman Catholic Church. No, really. The old girl is over 1500* years old, and the world now is not the world of its founding or expansion—a tough spot for an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three babies
Bit more than that, actually, and stolen, I mean. What had initially been reported as almost 300 is now a hundred thousand times larger than that: 300,000 babies stolen from their parents – and sold...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why can’t we be friends
I’m not friends with my students. Friendly—yes, but hanging out with them, exchanging casual e-mails and texts, inviting them to read this blog? No. I’m not opposed to becoming friends with students,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Go your own way
Conservatives, like most populists, harbored deep suspicions of institutions not under their control, . . . It’s a throwaway line in Nicole Hemmer’s re-view of three conservative texts from 1964 and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So now you see the light, eh
So a cops writes that “yeah you might think you have rights blah blah but I will fuck you up if you try to pull that shit with me”. . . . To which the only possible response is:
View Article