One year of right-wing death threats later, 38-year-old Drexel University political science professor and agent provocateur George Ciccariello-Maher has tendered his resignation. At the root of the controversy are Ciccariello-Maher’s many incendiary tweets, including last December’s satiric “All I want for Christmas is white genocide,” and the observation in March that he was “trying not […]
She’s balancing a carryout container in one hand. Church food, I assume, since it’s Sunday and she’s wearing a dress. A dress, low heels and a wig, actually, and standing out like a sore thumb on the trail this autumn afternoon. “Is that a preacher?” She points to the pocket where Thom Hartmann is holding forth. A podcast. I tell […]
While I’m not inclined, as linguist John McWhorter has done*, to describe text messaging as “a miracle happening right under our very noses”, I do welcome new and intuitive forms of communication. Seriously. Bring on the new shades of meaning, too, I say, and the always entertaining mashup words like “freemium” and “celebutante”. Love those. Sometimes, […]
