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What a great show! Let’s spoil it.

If you enjoy these cartoons, please support them on my Patreon. A $1 pledge really matters. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON Panel 1 This panel shows a reporter standing in a back yard, taking notes in a little pad, as a woman … Continue reading →

If you enjoy these cartoons, and can spare it, please support them on Patreon. A $1 pledge really matters. The pundit march against “identity politics” never gets old, does it? Oh, wait. In a way, this is something I did … Continue reading →

I met my Harvey Weinstein when I was around 13 years old. He was the head waiter at the catering hall where I worked, and he spent the next three or four years groping and fondling me as often and … Continue reading →

Not too long ago, I received from my publisher, Guernica Editions, the final proof of the cover of my new book of poems, Words For What Those Men Have Done and I am really happy with it. The design, of course, is … Continue reading →

In September, I start my first full term as Secretary of my faculty union. One of my responsibilities is to write and manage the union blog, which has been very interesting, both because I have been given more or less … Continue reading →

Peter S. Beagle, the author of three novels that were foundational for me (The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place and The Folk of the Air), and many other novels and stories, is having financial trouble – trouble severe … Continue reading →

There is a really crappy New York Times op-ed entitled “How the Anti-Vaxxers Are Winning” circulating at the moment (it’s such a great click-bait headline! Good job New York Times editors!). It claims that “It’s looking as if 2017 could … Continue reading →

Transcript:

URGENT. CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS VOTE THIS AFTERNOON. “We’re from the Government. We’re here to help.” Those words are a cliché of chilling authoritarianism precisely because we don’t trust the government with oversight of their own actions. They are accountable to us, … Continue reading →