If Republican voter suppression laws aren't effective enough, they'll just expel the people black voters elect. That's what they're doing in Tennessee. Three members of the Tennessee legislature protested in the well of the House, demanding tougher gun laws in the wake of the March 7 shooting at Covenant School in Nashville that killed six.... Continue Reading →
Tennessee Drag
Republicans aren't worried about our nation being attacked by Russia through our elections. They're not worried about white nationalist terrorists who try to overturn an election and install a fascist Oompa Loompa as a dictator. They're not worried about school shootings of which there have been at least seven of this year (96 mass shootings... Continue Reading →
Burning Down The Maus
Maus is a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about the Holocaust. It's very dark and disturbing, you know because it's about the Holocaust. A proxy for the author is a mouse who interviews his mouse father about his experience in the Holocaust. The Nazis are depicted as cats. The McMinn County School board in Tennessee... Continue Reading →
Gatlinburg Wildfires
Parts of the South are currently suffering from record droughts and wildfires are burning in every southeastern state. Wildfires in Gatlinburg and surrounding communities in eastern Tennessee has damaged hundreds of buildings and forced thousands to evacuate their homes overnight. More than 14,000 people have evacuated Gatlinburg alone. A big cause for all of this is... Continue Reading →