Monthly Archive: November 2017
the receiving end
Please don’t defend Roy Moore. At least not where I can hear it.
[CN: more or less the same as yesterday’s feature, to which this one relates. Relationships with a very large age gap, where one partner is a teenager. I was personally very upset by one sentence in here, but because of how very well it articulated something the author criticizes, a thing that my father also wanted and shouldn’t have wanted – a thing that another old man I know who is on trial right now also wanted and shouldn’t have wanted – not because of anything explicit. The essay was more than worth the resulting flashbacks, but I was grateful to have been warned before I read it. Can you have a trigger warning for insight? (Don’t get distracted into debating that in the comments, please.) — Maribou]
Linky Friday: (Un)earthly Affairs
The fault lies not in the stars, but in the politicians, our gods, and our media.
Weekend!
A photo Jaybird took in small-town Michigan, and our usual various and sundry weekend doings.
Flying Solo in Front of Company
Insufficient ethical boundaries lead to some odd situations for some men and the women they abuse. (Content note: Not safe for work. Unpleasant subject material. Also, language, though that’s the least of it.)
Just Another Stupid, Pretty Much Illegal Thing Trump Did
When Donald Trump’s extremely selective outrage isn’t just embarrassing, it’s also arguably illegal.
Morning Ed: SciFi {2017.11.14.T}
The future is now. Except it isn’t, because if it was it would be the future.
Sunday!
Sometimes you want a story where the main character has absolutely no desire to be the protagonist.
Ferris Bueller: Day of Retribution
I had this sneaking suspicion that the reason I’d been born at all was to rid the world of Ferris Bueller.
