Why is it acceptable, when black face is not?
Most of all, why is it acceptable to show to middle schoolers?
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Women
They’ve had a good run, but let’s face it; it’s over.
For the record, I love women.
Our Failed Educational System
An Oldie But A Goodie
I love this: A cat watching and reacting to Psycho.
Fraying
Thoughts from Sarah Hoyt on the Cold Civil War.
The Real China Threat
It is a clash of values, and ours may not win out.
Indoctrination
Teachers’ union teaches teachers how to make students woke.
Tulsi Gabbard
From my neighbor (really — he lives a few blocks away from me): Conservatives have taken to her (despite her leftism), because unlike most of the other Democrats, she doesn’t act like she hates our guts.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Don’t know how I missed titling the post, but it’s fixed.
Marketing Books
Some useful tips from Frank J. Fleming.
[Lying] is a pretty tried and true method you can adapt to any situation. For instance, I tried to get someone to buy Hellbender and he was like, “Wait. Is that a science fiction comedy? I only read true crime books.”
So I said, “That’s what it is. True crime. Maybe the truest crime ever. And extra crimey.”
And then when he bought it and flipped through it and was like, “This looks like it was written by a chimp pounding at a keyboard!” I was all, “No refunds!”
Lying is great. You can also use it to make whatever you’re selling sound better than it is, though I don’t need that for Hellbender, since it has already won five Nobel prizes in literature and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the greatest novel ever.
As an ever-struggling author, I’ll have to try some of these.
Training Rats
… to drive tiny cars.
In the interest of science, and at the risk of sounding racist, it seems like they should do it with Asian rats for comparison.