MONTHLY BOOK POST, JULY 2019
Terrorists in America: The Man They Wanted Me To Be (Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making), by Jared Yates SextonThough [the murder of Heather Heyer] and increasing disapproval of the...
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Prelude to Revolution, Mother, by Maxim Gorky"The people are beginning to boil. Every now and then some disorder crops out. Yes! Last night the cossacks came to our neighbors, and kept up an ado till...
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Going to the Races: Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And other conversations about race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhDIn his first public statements, Sharpton's rhetoric...
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Adopting to the Times: Motherhood So White, by Nefertiti AustinWhite women controlled who could get away with "oops" pregnancies. This was evident when Bristol Palin became a mother at 18. The...
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The Psychology of Conservative Republicans: Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund FreudThe common man cannot imagine this Providence otherwise than in the figure of an enormously exalted father....
View ArticleSTRENGTH TO YOUR SWORD ARM
Things to remember in these troubled times.Nancy Pelosi is smart and a badass. She knew that the Republicans have no conscience and that their Senators would do this. She knew that there was zero...
View ArticleKOS SONGBOOK: The Iowa Caucus halftime show
(Sung to: Shakira, “Hips Don’t Lie”) Democrats are here tonight(No fighting, no fighting) We got the caucuses up in here tonight (no fighting, no fighting) (Ground Zero, Ground Zero) I never really...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, January 2020
Historical Mystery: The Vanished Child, by Sarah Smith; Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel, by Boris Akunin; In the Shadow of Gotham, by Stefanie PintoffThe doctor ran down the path, reached the...
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Murder, What Fun! Whose Body; Clouds of Witness; Unnatural Death, by Dorothy Sayers“Well,” said Peter, “I thought of payin' a little friendly call on Mr.—on the owner of this farm, that is to say....
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, March 2020
Murder, What Fun! The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Strong poison, by Dorothy SayersBunter thanked him gravely for hi good opinion, and proffered a box of that equally nauseating mess called...
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Right Quarantine Reading: Sweet Secrets and Road to Chaos, by Stephanie L. Weippert"Transportal chocolate." He shrugged. "Whatever." Just because he hadn't heard of any candy with such a funny name...
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Self-Quarantine: The Metamorphosis, by Franz KafkaOne morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like...
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A Surge In Girlpower: The Power, by Naomi AldermanNothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, July 2020
A Boozy Beggar Who Could Think You Under The Table: Being and Time, and What is Metaphysics, by Martin HeideggerHuman existence can relate to be-ing only if it is itself beholden to no-thing. Going...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, August 2020: Animal House, by George Orwell
" Never had Faber College--and with a kind of surprise they remembered that it was their own college, every inch of it their own property--appeared to the Animals so desirable a place. As Flounder...
View ArticleKOS SONGBOOk: The Wreck of the Klanish Armada
The legend goes on from Sam Houston on downAbout Texans who act immaturelyThey warn you, be wise and try not to capsizeWhen the storms of November come early!The Republicans, they put on quite a...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, September 2020
The No Body Problem: The Light Brigade, by Kameron HurleyAnd see what happened to America, after. It became everything it accused others of being. It tore itself apart, riddled by the rot of...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, October 2020
Great Books Wrapup: "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber", by Ernest Hemingway; "A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner; "A Mathematician's Apology", by G.H. HardyIt's that some of them stay...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: Oompa loompas
Oompa Loompa Doopitty Doe Look! CNN has called it for Joe!Oompa Loompa Doopitty DendNow at long last, our nightmare can endWhat do you get when you govern by tweets?Pandering to brown shirts and white...
View ArticleTHE AMERICAN DYSFUNCTIONAL CHILDHOOD
We're a big family, but there's plenty to go around.Or there would be, if Dad didn't spend so much of it in himself, and on spoiling the favorite sons and telling all of us how much better and more...
View ArticleMonthly Bookybook post, November 2020
Destination Elsewhere: The 10,000 Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow"But you still know about doors, don't you? Because there are ten thousand stories about ten thousand doors, and we know them as...
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Redistricting Oregon: A 6D-0R Map with legislative Superdupermajority
Oregon, my home state, is pretty good politically. We’ve had vote-by-mail for decades, and automatic registration for a good while, too. It’s easy to vote here, and so Democrats regularly win large...
View ArticleFROM THE KOS SONGBOOK: We Didn't Start the 2020 Fire
Baby Yoda, Good PlaceTrump impeached and in disgraceWelcome 2020, what could possibly go wrong?Cory Booker out of luck,Cats the movie: what the fuck?Brexit happens, Meghan and Harry say "So long" Drone...
View ArticleFORBIDDEN WORDS, 2020
AlabastardAll Lives MatterAnarcho-CommunistAnd I still don't have a toasterAutogolpeBiden Crime FamilyBranch CovidiansBoomer removerCancel cultureCarnistCopagandaCoronacoasterCovidiotDay ____ of...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: The Devil Calls Down to Georgia
The Devil called down to Georgia,He was making more deals with NewtHe was running blind, he was falling behindAnd he'd lost his last lawsuitSo he locked himself in his officeAnd he called Brad...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, December 2020
The Last of the Great Books: The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell; The Nature of Life, by Conrad H. Waddington; Structural Anthropology, by Claude Levi-Strauss; The Waste Land , by TS Eliot...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: "You May Be White"
Monday night you went to DCTuesday you became all greasyWednesday you rushed in without a planYou were brandishing your gunThought a Civil War'd be funYou will be remembered as the Coup Klutz KlanI saw...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, February 2021
Happenings 1: Females, by Andrea Long ChuEveryone is female, and everyone hates it. If this is true, then gender is simply the form that this self-loathing takes in any given case. All gender is...
View ArticleMonthly Bookybook Post, March 2021
In Which Beowulf Gives Literally Zero Fucks: Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley I'm the strongest and the boldest and the bravest and the best Yes. I mean, I MAY have bathed in the blood of...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: C-PAC Chanty
Me name it is Matt Gaetz as I failed, as I failedO, me name it is Matt Gaetz, as I failedO, me name it is Matt GaetzAnd I tempted the three fatesNow my consequence awaits, as I fail I lived in Fort...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, April 2021
The Savage Noble: Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the Apes stroked her soft hair and tried to comfort and quiet her as Kala had him, when, as a little ape, he had been frightened...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: The Wreck of the SS Homophobic
The Legend lives on from the Sasquatch on downIn the Washington lake they call MosesAnd Karma, they say, on Memorial DayComes much earlier than one supposes!Memorial Day in Grant County, they sayWas a...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, May 2021
Dem Bones Goan' Rise Again: Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn MuirAll I can say is that it was complicated back in Canaan House, and sometimes a cute older girl shows you a lot of attention, because she's...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, June 2021
A New York State of Mind: the City We Became, by NK JemisinThey hit Second Avenue at Spanish Harlem. Working-class neighborhood, late on a weeknight; Bronca's unsurprised to see that the streets are...
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Just The Warts: American Rule (How a nation conquered the world but failed its people), by Jared Yates SextonThere was a sense that capitalism had all but conquered the United States, a feeling that...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, August 2021
Critical Race Theory: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson"America is an old house. We can never declare the work over. Wind, flood, drought, and human upheavals batter a structure that is already fighting...
View ArticleOregon Republicans rescue Democrats from themselves in redistricting fight
Politics in Oregon mirrors politics in DC: Democrats: Oh please, please negotiate with us! We'll pre-emptively redraw the Congressional boundaries in your favor so you don't have to! Republicans: No....
View ArticleOregon Democrats cave to the Republican minority in redistricting, preserve...
Today, the Oregon legislature, with a 3/5 majority in both houses, and the ability to control the redistricting process decided, in the interest of bipartisanship, to make traitor Dem Kurt Schraeder’s...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, September 2021
Pin the Tail on Your Inner Donkey: Awaken the Giant Within, by Tony RobbinsWhat you're doing is not producing the result you want, and you have to change your approach. Remember that your perceptions...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, October 2021
SuperMom: I'm Not Starfire, by Mariko Tamaki and Yoshi Yoshitani"And this...is Claire. What can you say about Claire that doesn't make you sound like the voice-over for a teen movie?"I reflexively put...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, November 2021
Words of wisdom: Unpopular Essays, by Bertrand Russell"The idea that falsehood is edifying is one of the besetting sins of those who draw up educational schemes. I should not myself consider that a man...
View ArticleFORBIDDEN WORDS, 2022
Accidental ShootingAmbitchousArtisinal Back to normal Be the bigger personBiden's Katrina Billionaire tears Both partiesBoycott votingButtering the catCancel cultureCocksocketConversating Critical Race...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, December 2020
Critical Race Theory: Warriors Don't Cry, by Melba Pattillo Beals "The crowd is closing in. They've broken the barricades. The kids are trapped in here.....You're right. We may have to let the mob...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, January 2022
DIGITAL MINIMALISM, BY CAL NEWPORT Another book for people who might be concerned about the impact of social media on their lives, a little less strident than last month's TEN ARGUMENTS FOR DELETING...
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MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON (How we almost lost our democracy and still could), by ADAM SCHIFF I had to wait a long time on the hold request list for one of the library's several copies to get to me. By...
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IRON WIDOW, by XIRAN JAY ZHAO I suspect that this one will be the first of the year's Hugo-nominated novels that I read this year; possibly the winner; we'll find out eventually (EDIT: The 2022 Hugo...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, June 2022
I found myself reading a lot of YA this month, in two categories: (1) Nominees for the Hugo/Lodestar award for YA, and (2) books that the Shit People are trying to get removed from school and public...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: "This is Florida"
(May be sung to “This is Halloween”, from THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CRISTMAS) Right-wing fascists frothing with hate Vowing to "make America great" It's already far too late If you're in the Sunshine State...
View ArticleTrump's inmate number scans to 867-5309
Fulton County, get me some justiceFani Willis—Please, you can trust us This new one isn't like the charges before I see the handwriting there on the wall Donnie, she's got your number You're going down...
View ArticleFORBIDDEN WORDS AND PHRASES, 2024
AdultingAll The Feels Alpha Male BidenflationBidenomics Body Count CheugyChronivoreCletus SafariCringe (adj)Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy (particularly when applied to something that is in fact Arduous...
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