Horton, Here’s a Who
May 04Until recently, apart from a single 1996 tv-movie I hadn’t watched Doctor Who since the 1970s, back when Tom Baker played the main role. [Aside to readers unfamiliar with the show (there’s probably at least one): Doctor Who is a British science-fiction series that initially ran from 1963 to 1989, then suffered a lengthy hiatus [...]
The State In Action
May 04Forty years ago today, Ohio National Guardsmen murdered four unarmed students at Kent State and wounded nine others, permanently paralysing one. (CHT Making Light for the reminder.) The students’ crime? Protesting the invasion of Cambodia (or, in some cases, walking nearby while others were protesting it). “That is government; that is its justice; that is [...]
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