Originally published on Facebook Oct 13 2013. Open letter to the independent bookstore: Today I was told that a reader of my acquaintance drove past the Barnes and Noble superstore in his immediate neighborhood, with its massive selection and ample parking, to travel the additional twenty minutes of local stop-and-start driving to the your establishment, […]
Something I wish I could say to any Italian-Americans angry at efforts to eliminate or rename Columbus Day, because to them it’s a holiday celebrating their ethnicity’s contributions to our history: Dudes, or rather, Paisans, I know where you’re coming from. We all like having a special day to celebrate the people we come from, […]
A certain piece of crap writing at his own little SF blog has repurposed a recent blog post about Ben Carson and in particular a paragraph sarcastically applying Carson’s logic about victims of mass shooters somehow at fault for not rushing their murderers, to American slaves not rushing their oppressors,, as “minor sf writer Adam-Troy Castro’s racist […]