An ordered ranking of titles or honorifics I would liked preceding my name. To be clear, I will accept any of them, and the ranking is more or less arbitrary. Some warrant long discussion or clarification, some don't. Don't bitch about how I only included the masculine derivations - it's not my fault history features... Continue Reading →
Arch Stanton Guest Post: Animals With Fraudulent Diplomas
A while back I wrote an article about a bleakly American Wikipedia page ("List of federal political sex scandals in the United States"), which started as delightfully anodyne - he may have been gay! He loved a black woman! - and ended up with a lot of sexual assaults and a suicide. Sorry about that.... Continue Reading →
House of the Day (and Random Bidtits; 9/4/2018)
First off, HAPPY (belated) CAPITAL DAY!!! Yes, it's that time of year where we celebrate the hard-fought battles of capitalists past. I've often struggled with officially moving the Capital Day holiday to the first Monday of March but I fear that without a September Capital Day to keep you grounded in the realities of elementary... Continue Reading →
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