Tales of a Modern-Day Cassandra with a Philosophy Fetish
The Guardian: As the US supreme court moves to end abortion, is America still a free country?
If you’re still reading these posts and you ever voted third party, willfully sat out an election, or told me that this was settled law, I am looking right at you. Continue reading “Reproductive rights are HUMAN rights…”
There are quite a number of authors I follow on Facebook and Twitter, and they are all saying the things I would say if I could bring myself to write about the shit show that was the last two months. Continue reading “Sedition and Impeachment…”
Four years ago today I had fear in the pit of my stomach. I had spent the entire year watching people who I thought were sensible dissolve into a puddle of insanity over almost 40 years of dedicated Republican propaganda prepare to vote away our Democracy. Continue reading “Zero…”
I am so fucking tired of the casual racism. It is everywhere. Continue reading “Politicize this…”
In the eddy of time, some events rise to the surface and stay there. Continue reading “On this day…”
The “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” was written seven months before I was born, and just under five years before Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered.
The 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed just under two months before my birth, and JFK was assassinated within my first 20 days on the planet.
This shit is toxic, it’s REAL, and it’s deadly. Continue reading “Another black man dead…Only this time?”
In my last Dots post, on April 11, 2018, I talked about racism, antisemitism, and Facebook’s role in boosting the signal. This time I’m taking on Iran.
Here’s a little rant, brought to you by people who ought to know better…
It’s remarkable, you know. I see patterns other people don’t and there are people who know me and think I’m too full of hyperbole to pay attention. Even when I’m right. Continue reading “Aftermath (Part 10): Are we really so blind we can’t see?”
So sometime in the last couple of days, this post (and artwork) circulated into my Facebook feed from several sources:
and on Twitter:
Only, the response to this comic was so toxic, it drove the artist off Twitter and I can’t say I blame him.
Screenrant: Comic Proves Star Wars Trolls Are the Kylo Ren of the Internet
Okay, now that you’re back, let’s continue.
Continue reading “Superheroes, Star Wars, and toxic masculinity…”