It sucks because it’s largely derivative. Someone writes a critique of, say, a TV show. Then someone else critiques the critique. Then a legion of ANGREE PEOPLE shows up in the comments section of the critique that’s critiquing the critique, furious about some WORD that the critic used, a word that is OFFENSIVE in someContinue reading “You know why “call-out culture” sucks?”
Category Archives: Dirty Politics
Dagestani terrorists and their live-in girlfriends
WARNING. Do NOT click on this link if you don’t want to be subjected to the sight of a dead woman’s body. The Russian press is referring to the woman in the picture as Sabina Musayeva – the “common law wife” of terrorist leader Soltan Sayid Soltanov. You don’t really see pictures like this inContinue reading “Dagestani terrorists and their live-in girlfriends”
I have been paying attention to the goings-on in U.S. Congress
I’m mostly just in horrified awe, is all.
Jose Antonio Vargas
It is a DISGRACE that someone who was brought to the United States as a child, in complete ignorance of his illegal status, should have to suffer in the way that Jose Antonio Vargas has suffered. It was painful to read this piece, because immigration issues *always* leave me very nervous myself, and though I’veContinue reading “Jose Antonio Vargas”
Dear Tom MacMaster, your non-apology sucks even worse than your screw-up
Updated below, to include a link to Tom MacMaster’s real apology Lying to people is never a great way to help an important cause. Still, I can understand how someone can get caught up in a lie of this magnitude, I suppose. I write a lot of fiction, and I know that fiction, even politicalContinue reading “Dear Tom MacMaster, your non-apology sucks even worse than your screw-up”
Natalia A. 