“I’ve never been more disgusted. It’s like there’s [sic] two people over here making sense, two people over there making sense, and a hundred million people aggressively masturbating at each other as if it were a productive activity.” – Bo Williams, Facebook reply, June 18, 2018 Oh, and then I added joylessly, as in “aggressively … Read more
Roseanne Barr was once “only” a stand-up comic—and she was a good one. Alas, it seems being a good stand-up comic is a major risk factor for being, if you’ll pardon the insensitive expression, out of your damned mind. Sometimes it seems relatively innocuous. Frequently, it’s destructive. Roseanne is definitely in the latter category. Recently … Read more
“You can’t tell me I’m not offended!” Heard that before? Now, this is trivially true. When someone is offended, no one in the world but that person can possibly determine it. But that’s not really the question, is it? The assertion is meant to shut down any question of whether the person should be offended. … Read more