I loved Sarah Palin. She energized me in 2008. I didn’t much care about the race until she was part of it. For years I believed that if the stupid, overcautious McCain campaign would have just turned Palin loose, McCain would have won. That’s not such a ridiculous thought even now, and if you find … Read more
And I certainly will, should I ever meet her. Transgendered people cause me no particular heartburn. However, I tend to be charitable with people who do have issues with the notion. I don’t think being gay is necessarily the same wheelhouse as deciding you have the wrong bits (though I understand Jenner has not actually … Read more
I remember being in the fourth grade and sitting in Mrs. Dillard’s room watching a film about the Holocaust. I remember seeing footage of repurposed agricultural equipment moving literal bucketloads of gassed Jews’ corpses around like dirt, filling huge mass graves with them. It was the first time I saw such vivid and graphic imagery … Read more