LAWFUL CONCEALED CARRY PERMITTED ON PREMISES.
--Sign outside the Apple Dumplin Restaurant, Springville, New York

The food was good, roadside diner fare in roadside diner surroundings. They waitress says "hon" and the owners don't accept plastic. The radio played music from the 1970s through to, perhaps, 2001. Ain't that America?

We spent the first night in small town Pennsylvania. Two of the

Dear?

Yes.

Lunch is ready.

About damn time. Man could starve to death around here.

I had things to do. Like washing your socks and ironing your shirts. Here. Have some soup. And don’t be so cranky.

You say that as if I’m not always this way.

Usually you’re not. You only get snippy whenever you’re hungry. Otherwise, you’re a kind and—

Please. Don’t say that word. 

Don’t say what word?

The word that I’ve

FUELING THE FURY

"With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.”
-- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Ragebait, a compound word coined to describe content designed to provoke strong

Pop quiz, hotshot! What holiday features revellers dressed in fancy costumes, all enjoying wild parties, treats, parades, festive decorations, lots of fun -- aside from a handful of religious weirdos who hate the holiday with all their might and want to have it banned? Yes, of course it's Pride -- but it's also Halloween! And a lot of things that make Halloween popular are why some LGBTQ people call Halloween "gay Christmas." 

A lot of this is because Halloween was one of the rare holidays where