I’m counting on the incoming clown car to run their first two years like Wile E. Coyote, self-sabotaging long enough for the mid-terms to happen. 33 Senate seats are up for grabs (most of them currently red), and all 435 seats in the House. The Dems need to mobilize now and get ready.

Female is an adjective, not a noun. It can be used as description, i.e., “female executive.” Using it alone as a noun is dehumanizing, reducing a person to a biological specimen. It’s sad that this has to be explained to some people.

When I was writing for GeekDad, I saw a preview screening of GOTG; afterward, 4 Disney PR people, looking nervous, asked hesitantly what I thought. I said “It’s gonna make so much you could shoot the sequel on location in space!” They all exhaled. Before that day, they were 40% sure it would tank.

Back in the late ‘60s, American auto manufacturers did endless surveys and focus groups and built the cars the people said they wanted. The response was “eh….” Meanwhile, foreign manufacturers built cars they wanted themselves. They gave the people something they didn’t know they could have. Hmmm.

I was just explaining this to my archery team. It only takes a few people to set or alter the culture of a group. If there is nobody actively and deliberately setting a positive healthy environment, “rust never sleeps,” and the culture that naturally emerges is driven by the worst members.

Back in the early '90s, everyone who owned a PC was suddenly a "graphic designer." All you needed was a disk of cheap fonts and a printer; no knowledge of design necessary. Those were dark years for typography.