There have been plenty of horrendous days for America and today is no exception. What a horrific, sadistic, and stupid bill. I have nothing to express but anger and sorrow at this moment.

National Literacy Institute: 21% of adults in the US were illiterate as of 2024. 54% of US adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). Worldwide the US ranks 36th in literacy. This is horrifying. It also explains a lot.

Was thinking yesterday how our ideas of good and evil have social class baked into the terminology. A "hero" was originally someone of divine descent, a demigod of the noblest blood. A "villain" is literally a low-born person, a rustic.

As a history teacher, I try to understand current events by looking for historical precedents. I don't love that I increasingly have to look for them in the 1850s, the decade before the Civil War.

Impressions of Adolf Hitler from those who met him during the 1930s, from Erik Larson’s gripping book In the Garden of the Beasts. These quotes haunt me when people ask: “How could they not have seen what was coming?” Evil can be charming, convincing, and even wildly popular.

JK Rowling is cruel and stupid.

Trying to avoid the news but every day headlines are like:
Morning: Man decides to blow up the moon today.
Evening: Man decides not to blow up the moon today and expects us all to be grateful he averted a crisis.

At sixty, I now realize why old people say, "I never thought I'd live to see the day..." Because I've been saying that a lot recently. *shakes fist at the sky and grumbles in curmudgeon.*

Bite the hand that starves you.

I did this the last time the Tangerine Shitgoblin took office. It offended many, many horrible people… including David Duke, who was so mad, he Tweeted about it 3 times in 24 hours.

I’m currently working on a new version.

Woah!!! ✨💫