That's just funny right there.

Thanks for the smile. My students loved it.

Yeah, keep hammering...we're getting close.

Read 1984 as a teen, found it profound and disturbing but - whew! - just a work of fiction. Fifty years later I reread it before election. Gawd it hit hard. Newspeak, doublespeak, revisionist history, fueling fear, disappearing people, oppressive surveillance. Reread Timothy Snyder - very helpful.

Everyone should be reading anything Timothy Snyder writes.

Strong feelings here about this...my teen years (like my whole life) were charmed. I still remember how hard it was anyway. Please, please, never say anything so potentially hurtful to a youngster.

Short and sweet...right on.

His complete book of works is across the room lookin' at me. Check chapter 8 of A Connecticut Yankee... for his view of the union of church and state from Europe.

POSERS! All of 'em.

really good chance...we know something will...might as well be this

Here in Wisconsin on October 18, a stranger just said out of the blue, "It's so encouraging to see so many people who feel the same way we do."

Thanks for this one. I'm at the moment unable to summon the words to describe my feelings about Stone. I"ll work on it "in the middle of the night with my covers pulled up tight". John Hiatt