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Donald J. Trump’s Short but Unabridged Dictionary of American English

August 31, 2018 Tags: politics, satire, word usage

A+. The grade I gave myself in the friendly confines of Fox Television for my performance as president; equivalent to my Wharton MBA. See “Fox Television”; cf. “Wharton.”   Attorney General. My personal lawyer. See “personal lawyer”; cf.

The House Takes an Ax to the ADA

February 16, 2018 Tags: disability, journalism and reporting, morality and justice, politics, well-being and medical

Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to put obstacles in the way of disabled people seeking freedom of access under the Americans with Disabilities Act. See these articles from The Hill and the Washington Post. I’m re-posting the article I

Texas

February 9, 2017 Tags: history, literature, memoir, morality and justice, other places, politics, race

There were two uplifting stories out of Texas last week. Both began badly. After the mosque in Victoria, Texas, burned down, Jews from the town’s temple went around to one of the mosque’s founders and handed him the keys to the synagogue. (The fire’s

Trumplodyte and the Arena People

February 2, 2017 Tags: morality and justice, politics, satire

Troglodytes were a tribe of cave dwellers. One of their descendants is American patriot Trumplodyte, living in a gold cave in the sky over Fifth Avenue. He loves his fellow Americans so much that he offered to come down and reign over them, even

The Strawberry Statement

December 22, 2016 Tags: history, literature, morality and justice, politics

On January 21, Donald Trump is going to look down from his high tower, in whichever dimension it may be, on the women marching in protest against his assault on civility and think to himself, “Melania and Ivanka look a whole lot better than these

How Can We Talk About Race? Thoughts Based on How We Talk About Disability

January 7, 2016 Tags: censorship, charity, disability, history, morality and justice, politics, race

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is quoted in the December 10 edition of the New York Times as saying: “I don’t think it stands to reason that it’s a good thing for the University of Texas to admit as many blacks as possible.” He went on to say

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