Introduction: There was a time, back in the olden times, when the aftermath of a horrific event like a school shooting was crowded with politicians making dubious policy pronouncements about ...
That Acrid Taste of Damnation
Rival Flag, Rival Nation
Introduction: So one of the things we need to do, if you don't mind my saying so, is figure out what the heck is going on. It would seem to matter, would it not? I have written extensively ...
And Our Liberated Sisters Ran Sobbing from the Room
Introduction: So a gent named Josh Butler apparently won the woke lottery, this being the kind of lottery that Shirley Jackson made famous through her short story of the same name. He did this after ...
Good News and Hope for Detransitioners
The characters and situations in the following letter are entirely fictional. But the circumstances that make such a letter necessary are a true horror show, and not fictional at all. With fictional characters and a true situation, the letter is composed in the conviction that the grace of God is powerful enough to reach down …
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IndigniLadies
Introduction: These things come in waves, of course. Every so often, when my adversaries think that what I am teaching is getting a little too much traction, they make yet another attempt at convincing ...
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Modern Art as Suicide Note
Introduction: This past week saw the unveiling—and unveiling is the word we are looking for—of a sculpture on the grounds of the Boston Common. The work is called "The Embrace" and it is purportedly ...
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Wedding As Adornment
Dear Darla, I hear from Nancy via your mother that Trent has proposed, and that you have accepted. So good job, everybody. Now we’re talking. If you will permit me just one more short letter, ...
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Don’t Waste Your Fifteen Minutes
Introduction: Andy Warhol once famously said that in the future everybody was going to get their fifteen minutes of fame. If you make the second and third rounds, as we here in Moscow have done a few times, a predictable thing then happens. What happens is that if the critics were puppies and kittens, all …
A Different Kind of Daddy Issue
Dear Darla, So I take it that things are getting a mite serious over there. Good for you. I trust you are smiling at him brightly? That apparently being the case, let me compare and contrast two ...
Courtship and Sexual Baggage
Dear Darla, So it is very good that your father is putting Trent through his paces. I take it that apart from the central question of your last letter, everything appears to be going swimmingly? So let’s get to it. As to that central question, you raised the issue of his past porn use generally …
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