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Daily Archives: January 9th, 2011

Bowdlerizing Twain

Sunday, January 9, 2011

In the year just past, the unexpurgated, if somewhat bloated, Autobiography of Mark Twain was released, after the lapse of the 100 years he deemed necessary to safely publish it. But in the past few days we have learned that Twain will never outrun controversy, and never escape the narrow minded side of America that […]

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Let the false equivalencies begin!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

It seems fairly clear that, whatever his mental state, the guy who killed six people and shot a Congresswoman in Arizona was heavily influenced by right wing crazy talk. He is not the first person to have killed under the influence of Beck, Limbaugh, et. al, and he will most likely not be the last. […]

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