Today on Tumblr, I learned that making your lips look fuller with make-up is racist.

Good god, don’t these people have anything better to do? I mean, come on.

This is how a movement discredits itself without any outside assistance.

When everything is racist and cultural appropriation and evil, nothing is — it actually harms the real fight and the people you are trying to help.

I said in an earlier post that Jeff VanDerMeer came the closest to blending literary sensiblities with a quality plot.

I take that back. I think Marge Piercy, a much less well-known writer, does it better. So far I’ve read Woman on the Edge of Time and He, She and It and both have strong, comprehensible plots as well as high-quality writing. In fact, if you removed the plot, added some pretension and some of the usual unnecessary literary foofaraw and set them in the required NYC, both could be literary novels.

Piercy excels at description while not overburdening readers with needless detail. Parsimony with precision is difficult in writing, so I admire that.

Why regular people shouldn’t have guns.

What sort of moron takes a shot at a target they can’t see or haven’t seen at least once? Well, I’m not being fair. Most people, probably, would panic and do that.

I’m in favor of gun control because most people can’t control their guns.