Month: May 2018

“The Iran Deal”

I’m more worried about the consequences of unilaterally pulling out of a peaceful nuclear deterrent deal – one that many inspectors said Iran was abiding by – than I was about all of President Trump’s cock-waggling at North Korea in his first 14 months. We finally gave peace a chance, and it was working, and “The Iran Deal”

Oliver North

It seems strange that the NRA, chief proponents of the “good guy with a gun” myth, would appoint as president a person most famous for illegally supplying bad folks with guns.

Phrasing

I think I’ve figured out what bothers me about the phrases “this is not normal” and “don’t normalize this.” I’ve said for a while that if you listen to marginalized people, the things we say “this is not normal” about actually are normal, they’ve just been said and done more politely. Instead, I think we Phrasing