“But let us just remember what Mark Twain said about how a lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on his shoes. The Internet has not changed this or made us smarter. It just moves our ignorance around the world at very high rates of speed.”
At Least No Presidential Candidate Has Called It COVID-18 Yet
Introduction: As Christians are sorting out what sorts of responses to the COVID-19 virus we should have, we are doing so in a cacophonous time, and it can be hard to figure out what to think, or how ...
The Lie of Servant Leadership
Introduction: So a little something happened a few days ago, and I thought that it was of such a nature that it required a little extra comment, and so here I am, as helpful as ever. The good folks ...
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With No Shade Available
“Martin Malloy was right about the impact that his story would have. The flag story was already hot, and this took the whole thing up to a high summer afternoon on Mercury’s bright side, that being the side closest to the sun.”
Lots to Talk About Tuesday
Letter to the Editor: Hear Hear to the whole thing. But you could have added an explanatory sentence that one of the nefarious things the husband in the play did was to turn down the GAS ...
Taking Its Sweet Time
“The remaining twenty minutes crawled by like rapidly cooling magma.”
Gaslighting the Goobers
Introduction: So I want to discuss the massive gaslighting operation that is going on all around us, even as we speak, and in order to accomplish this, I need to do two basic things. First, I need to define gaslighting, and then I need to wax philosophical for a wee bit beyond that. I want …
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Clueless
“The next morning, while brushing her perfect white teeth, the truth revealed by her manifest and palpable relief over the whole thing came crashing in on her, and so she sat down and acknowledged to herself what was in fact the case. She was a goner. And he was clueless. High-minded. An office full of thick books. Accreditation visits. Scholarly articles. All of that. Stupid man. Dear stupid, stupid man.”
And Quite Satisfying
An Actual Handicap
“For Maria was a beauty. And she had decided some years before that there was quite possibly an inverse relationship between feminine beauty and feminine happiness. When she first came to Choctaw Valley, it had taken her almost a year to make any friends at all. Most of the boys were terrified of her, and those who weren’t scared of her were terrified of what the other girls would do if they even talked to her. And needless to say, the girls were usually pretty sullen around her, although in a sweet southern way. All they ever wanted to do whenever they were with her was go to the restroom to check their makeup.”