At this point, I’d prefer being stuck in an endless Obama-presidency loop than facing the fresh orange hell which will be 2017.

I am a college English instructor in the South (but I’m from California where the internment camps were taught and visited). One of our lit classes has a text with a collection of haiku written by those in the Japanese internment camps. They are heartbreaking, yet hopeful pieces. And every semester I am heartbroken…

The Holicaust should be when people take Holi too far, although I’m not really sure what that would mean.

Isaac Asimov: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

I have never talked about this ordeal outside of my close family/friends. The fallout was almost more than I could stand at the time, but weirdly, I feel like keeping it to myself is actually worse. 4 yrs ago, when I was a very junior officer in the military, my commander would CONSTANTLY harass me and would…