Originally published on Facebook 20 June 2013. The biggest and most fallacious enemy of humor is that certain subjects are too serious to be appropriate targets for it. That there’s a list of such subjects. A fuckin’-ass LONG list. Example: the suffering of burn victims is no fit subject for humor. Response: Watch RICHARD PRYOR […]
When the gun nuts — a specific demographic separate from “gun owners,” that Donald Trump has just joined for expedience — claim that the Orlando massacre would have been cut short if the nightclub’s patrons been armed and able to return fire, it’s hard to tell exactly what scene he and others envision. Set […]
Among the many monstrously anti-literate things said to me by folks who saw me reading books, statements to the effect that people who read books don’t have lives, that reading is for fags, that I was a Poindexter or a nerd or so on, the conversations that have long horrified me most are those with […]