it’s time we started thinking, talking and understanding differently the concept we have called autism for far too long. it has been talked about as a disease, a neurological difference, a spectrum and a gift. but it is none of those things and the name itself is both misleading and… Read More »getting off the spectrum
as usualbeauty eludes me completelyyet i taste itat the edge of my consciousnessand dream i am drinking itthough whether wine or hemlocki am still unsurewith its bittersweet pricklesagainst my skinand caressing tendernessi suspect is the preludeto proclamations of desirei will never return you walk on streetspopulated by menseeming as treesbut… Read More »beauty
democracy doesn’t work. it never has and it is painfully incapable of functioning in a way that leads to a good society. perhaps a better one than other possibilities, at times. but not a good one because good from a moral and ethical standpoint is starkly opposed to collective desire… Read More »democracy has failed us
english has too many pronouns. and that’s not even counting the silly made-up ones that seem to be floating around lately that i’m not going to focus on. if we look at just the subject-form pronouns in english, what do we have? first person, “i” and “we”. ok, that seems… Read More »linguistic overpopulation
i’m neither an american nor a constitutional scholar. but i am a language teacher specializing in culture and the development of contemporary language. and if that counts for nothing reading a document intended to be read by average people and understood by the masses as a guarantee of freedom, i’m… Read More »the second amendment
in the last few days, there has been an incredible increase in the amount of discussion of gun violence. of course, that’s not particularly surprising. people in the modern world jump from one hot-topic to another more quickly than changing their underwear. seriously. every day there is extreme outrage and… Read More »evil, not guns