Plain Speaking, Social Media Idiocy, Truth, Womanly Feminism

The State of (Cos)Play

Or maybe the better term is LARPing (which isn’t so easy to fit into a succinct and clever title). In either case, it’s people with privilege (talking about actual, personal, individual privilege, such as students (whatever their background) who’ve been accepted into some of the most elite educational institutions in the world and who, as… Continue reading The State of (Cos)Play

Culture, Plain Speaking, Social Media Idiocy, Womanly Feminism

The Ballad of Amber and Johnny: Make it Stop. Please.

Well now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts They were true as a blue blue sky--The Ballad of Frankie and Johnny, Sammy Cahn and Johnny Green Apparently, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp met during the filming of The Rum Diary, a movie based on the Hunter S. Thompson book of the same name.  Depp was, it… Continue reading The Ballad of Amber and Johnny: Make it Stop. Please.

Plain Speaking, Quote of the Day, Social Media Idiocy

Glenn Beck Nails the Ladies of The View. (Metaphorically, Anyway)

So there I was, this morning, driving to the teeming metropolis of Washington PA, having left one of my IT clients whose computers I had sorted out, and I turned on the car radio, only to hear Glenn Beck launch into what I'm calling the Quote of the Day for February 2, 2022.  (Hm.  2/2/22. … Continue reading Glenn Beck Nails the Ladies of The View. (Metaphorically, Anyway)