I’m still working on some ideas for future posts, here. But to break the silence, I thought I’d let y’all know what my next post is going to be:
A spoiler-free review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Welp.
This is immensely exciting and… perhaps… a tiny bit scary. It is an honor to have this blog at Freethought Blogs, and I hope I can do this amazing blog network justice.
I’ll be posting a select few of earlier writings here, but leaving many, many more behind, for different reasons. For right now, I just wanted to say hello.
Unfortunately, I’m very terrible with themes and such, but that won’t stop me from attempting to make this place look cool and not generic. It’ll take a while, though…
Welcome to Atheism, Music, and More!
Also, and this, I think, is more important… I’m sure most of you have already, but if you haven’t, please go and get to reading the Orbit! So many people I admire, many I’m lucky enough to also consider friends, are blogging there now, and it looks like it will be an amazing place going forward. So make sure you show them some love, too!
July 12, 2016 – I’m making some edits on this that have been bothering me for a while, to make it, I hope, flow a little better.
You’re going to see a decent number of updates on my blog today. I’m starting with this. I first posted it on my old blog on July 3, 2015, then brought it to Daily Kos on July 21, 2015. I feel as if it’s an important post to bring here, and so I am, on March 14, 2016. I hope you find it interesting. Also… I always end up doing some editing when going back over old posts, so if you do decide to compare this to its original on my old blog or at Daily Kos, and note some differences, that’s why.
So back in early May [2015], while the Baltimore protests were going on, Rabbi Benjamin Blech wrote an article about violence in the riots. I’m linking you to Aish.com, but I first saw it in the May 8th – 14th edition of the Long Island Jewish World. I wrote a response and looked for a few friends to edit it. I actually got around to finishing it a few weeks ago. First I sent it to Aish, who decided not to publish it but did forward it to the Rabbi. I also sent it to Alternet, but never heard back.
I’m sick and tired of white people crying about black people “violently” rioting against violent White Supremacy while those same white people condone the very violent White Supremacy that is instigating and causing this backlash in the first place. And I wanted to say something about it. Please note: I use the narrative of the Exodus because the Rabbi does; I don’t actually think that happened. I also did not use the Holocaust as an analogy. In hindsight, this probably would have been better, but I also feel as if my decision to present the alternate universe was a more direct (if ham-fisted) way of conveying what I was trying to say.
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