Okay, so it now seems that we have to address the issue of preconception in critical appraisal. The impetus is Jonathan Jones, a critic for the UK Guardian who wrote a much-derided essay to the effect that he had never read Terry Pratchett but was certain that he was nothing much. Later, in response to […]
Sorry, guardians of sensitivity. You are not going to deprive us of the useful word “Crazy.” Or the other useful word “insane,” as applied to observed bad behavior. Sensitivity to mental illness is a good thing, but we have all seen people act crazy or insane everyday, and when we say so it is not […]
Originally published on Facebook September 4 2014. Edited. So I just saw some footage of Louis Gohmert arguing for more Benghazi hearings, on the grounds that the first bunch were not sufficient, that somehow this time the same round of questions would get different answers from the intelligence services that were “too frightened to tell […]
