Lisa Mc

Thank goodness for Julie K Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Her book, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, is excellent.

I'm still thinking about this work...

We are not at war with Iran, although we have been for the last 50 years.

Do you ever just go back and think what if Al Gore would have become president?

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It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

ALT Text: America will never correct its mistakes if teachers are not allowed to teach about them.

We have lost a decade of our life to an evil idiot…a dolt. A moron. One of the most racist and dumbest humans on the planet.

10 years.

“But are there not many Fascists in your country?"
"There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.”

- Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Just saying: great headline for the article!

For all those who didn't watch tonight, allow me to summarize:

The liar lied again.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.

The worst part about the Kash video is just how much of a DORK he looked like.

Like a guy who for the first time was at a party with the cool kids and trying too hard

It's a short story that involves a white woman and a black women, but she never says which is which.

I did enjoy the structure. It might have been interesting to discuss the novel at the end of each section rather than the novel as a whole. I think this particular novel would benefit from more discussion along the way.

Yes. Morrison's exploration of ideas will always offer new insights. I was awed by the novel when it came out; many years later, I see many aspects I never noticed the first time. All of Morrison's works are worthy of at least one re-read.

the Convent in the end "making their way back to uncertainty is "How could so clean and blessed a mission devour itself and become the world they had escaped?" foreshadows the incident's effect.

I think the changed relationship between Soane and Dovey represents the town of Ruby. Also, the realization on p. 292 the "angry sad frightened people" of Ruby have as they leave

People look for a paradise in which they are safe.

One of my favorite phrases -"anger smallpoxed other places" - eventually comes to describe Ruby. Anger often demands a prey of some kind. While I always considered the women as prey (particularly at the end), your point about men being prey as well rings true in many places in the novel.

I would also like to discuss similarities between the novel and Morrison's short story "Recitatif".

These ideas come from a Kelly Reames's A Reader's Guide to Toni Morrison's Paradise:
- the contradiction between the novel's epigraph and the final sentence
- Morrison "is not promoting a position but exploring problems that interest her and hopefully engage the reader."

I found interesting parallels in the descriptions of skin-color bias in both novels.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Just a thought: How about we nix Presidents’ Day and make Election Day a national holiday instead?

I continue to believe that we place far too many eggs in the "it matters that you learn ________ for your future" basket and not nearly enough in the "it matters that you learn ________ for yourself right now" basket.

Women should NOT have to do one single extra thing to vote than a man does.

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sorry Pink Floyd, turns out that we needed education. a lot of it. all of the education, really