Chinese Balloon? Nope

Maybe the Chinese are telling us they loved NOPE? In that inscrutable Oriental way?

Bugs Bunny hatin’ on women, Donald Duck riffin’ on guitar, Mickey Mouse takin’ a . . .

All young women whom the current political junta doesn’t like–westernized, assertive, working girls with their own plans–are represented as ball-crushing fiends.

Roe v Wade Overturned

My Friends, enjoy the future drafted and curated for women by Amy Coney Barrett, who definitely far exceeds at least Clarence Thomas in the cojones department.

How to Read Macbeth Again and Understand the Horrors of Climate Change

Faced by either individual extinction (death), or collective extinction (climate catastrophe), especially if self-propelled, humans find the idea of complete senselessness almost as terrifying as physical annihilation. In Shakespeare’s immortal lines, and through his tragic protagonist’s unavailing last-minute regret for what he has done out of pride, arrogance, and ambition, we hear the echo of humanity’s lament in the face of extinction, whether individual or collective.

To Write About and From Within the Ineffable, the Unthinkable, the Unimaginable–Can You?

Have we, in some elusive way, been using language as not expression but as count?… ? And fast?