Parlant a l'Ether

I can’t believe that in 2010 maniacs still try to get books banned from libraries and schools. The ALA has only kept year-to-year data since 2001, but it has information going back to 1990. I’m not surprised that improvement in technology and communication – not to mention Banned Books Week – has resulted in bringing …

I try to be gracious, but I also try to be candid. Some people are neither. They are sarcastic and tricky. I admit to being situationally sarcastic, and tricky when being candid or plain can be dangerous, but I think that those are the rarer times. Even rarer are times when I’m just mean and …

When I arrived at The Evergreen State College in September of 1996, I was open to the world and the world was open to me. I was protean. I had vague notions about myself and what I wanted out of life. I was a lonely girl from a small town, and I just knew that …

This whole healthcare reform thing is blowing up in a really weird way, huh? I honestly expected the misguided cries of “Socialism!” from conservatives, but the lie that right-wing media is selling that old people and people with special needs are going to be ordered to die? I did not see that one coming. I …