I am going to post this essay from Tim Wise in full because I think it’s important to hear this from a white man.  For most white folks, indignation just doesn’t wear well. Once affected or conjured up, it reminds one of a pudgy man,...
Topics: Politics

Until further notice this blog is closed. I am working on another big project and I just don’t have time to keep this one going for now. I apologise for not letting you know sooner. I really thought that I could do it, but time is not my friend....
Topics: Personal

Cross-posted at THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRYTo regular readers of this blog, people who know me and anyone who cares,Over the last couple of months I have promised posts that have not appeared or have been a long time in coming. For that I apologise but I also.
Topics: Personal

Loxias of “…neither reveals nor conceals” sent me this link for Amnesty’s new campaign to close down the Guantánamo “detention centre”. It’s bit like a sim game where you add a character to a flotilla...

Lymphopo blogs at As the Tumour Turns and is a single woman in my fifties, in debt, no income, no health insurance, and then that grapefruit-sized tumor wedged between my lungs turns out to be a malignant high-grade highly aggressive stage IV lymphoma....
Topics: Blogging