Published poet & storyteller. All poetry copyrighted.
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Joined January 2014
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In case you missed it, here's my author panel book launch event from last week promoting the Fit for the Gods anthology. Please check it out!
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The fastest way to become an atheist is to read the Bible, but the fastest way to become a Christian is to catch a criminal charge.
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Itβs time for Congress to legalize marijuana nationwide.
End federal prohibition. Expunge nonviolent marijuana convictions. Stop criminalizing people for something that is already legal in much of the country.
This should be a bipartisan issue. The war on marijuana has gone on long enough.
Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Move on.
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Hey MAGA- You had your chance and you didn't make anything great, much less great again.
You broke a lot of shit and hurt a lot of people. You terrorized thousands of communities, tore families apart, traumatized children, abandoned Ukraine, and condemned 200,000 babies to death without USAID. You let the billionaire Epstein class gorge on public dollars, protect pedophiles, and start wars, and made life more expensive for ALL of us.
Cry harder.
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In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. βBooks cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column β¦ Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, βNow at last you can read all the classics.β β¦ School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?β
In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated βsummariesβ of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.
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When mentoring my trainees, medical and doctoral students, residents and postdocs, fellows and junior faculty I quote Shirley Chisholm:
βIf they donβt give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chairβ
5 Nov 1968: #Democrat Shirley Chisholm becomes the first black woman elected to Congress when she wins New York's 12th #Congressional District seat. She is the first African American to make a bid for #president from a major party when she ran in 1972. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3SZM7QN
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I am a scholar in the failed post civil war reconstruction, and I did my masters thesis on the damage that failure and unaccountable conservatives have done to this country for the last 150yrs to this day, and we are on a precipice here again. America must stop allowing capitalism to preclude democracy, and hold the robber barons, racists, murderers, and corrupt politicians accountable, or this βrevolutionaryβ election doesnβt mean shit.
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Stop testing things on animals; test them on rapists like Russell Brand. If he says no, he didnβt really mean it anyway.
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Democrats: The American people have spoken. There shall be no βworking withβ republicans. No βmoving on.β We want you to fix this horrifying clusterfuck and punish all those responsible for it. If you reach across the aisle, it should only be with your middle fingers extended.
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Itβs a pretty jarring day waking up and seeing last nightβs election results. If youβre someone who still believes in President Trump, Iβm sure youβre feeling concerned and maybe even a little scared. So let me make this clear: We are going to eat you.
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Youβre about to see some Hall of Fame snitching and Game of Thrones level maneuvering within this administration. Itβs about to be every man and woman for themselves.
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Governing by tantrum has resulted in Donald Trump holding his breath until America turned blue.
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Sure sex is great but have you ever watched the entire country say fuck you to Donald Trump??
