Elegy: a mournful poem; a lament for the dead As in, “Who died and made you spokesperson?” Hillbilly Elegy is not a poem, mournful or otherwise. It is a lament of sorts, and it is lamentable. Nevertheless, I read it. As writing goes, I’ve experienced worse. There are far fewer notable grammar and punctuation cringe-points…
The Method Behind The Idiocy Wolves In Wordy Clothing Y’all know that Old Fat Donald is widely kbown and critizized for his rambling, incoherent rants. He has said that he weaves everything together, and that it’s all a wonderful product of his genius mind. While it seems to me more felting than weaving, it becomes…
I started singing this around the house for stress relief, and had to get it down and share it. Feel free to add and alter. Latest version – Download PDF Old Fat Donald A folksong for evil times Old Fat Donald is a pig. Donald Trump’s a LIE. In his pen the lawyers feed. Donald…
…you need something else to call Tronald Gump, here is the list I composed. Some of these may be found elsewhere, but none of them were copied. Not all gems, perhaps, but I wanted a mix of long and short. Prune Covered In Orange Slime Mold Decaying Baby-Tooth Dead Blobfish Dipped In Tang Thing Moving…
I was made aware of Steve McEllistrem’s blog post on militarization, Why Are We Militarizing the World?, on Twitter today. He makes a terribly clear statement on matters we are not supposed to think about. “Good” Americans who mindlessly repeat the Pledge of Allegiance, who want to Make America “Great” “Again,” who don’t see the…
Guest post by Hallie Dolin __________________________ Let me tell you a story. It’s violent and it’s not pretty, but it needs to be told. My paternal grandmother’s mother was from a family called Sereichik, named after their hometown of Sereija in what is now Lithuania. My dad has a sheaf of documents, full of my…
I didn’t know I was getting newsletter e-mails from Senator Herb Kohl until I had to fix some mail configs and dug into an account I haven’t really used in years. Suddenly there was this nice fresh one. So I read it. I’m still scratching my head at the apparent (to me) insanity. Some kind…