Author Joyce Carol Oates on complicated history and book bans

Princeton's Joyce Carol Oates draws on true crime inspiration for new novel, 'Babysitter'

it would be wiser of the ultra-rich to display their wealth in private; when it is public we can see--literally--how their tax cuts allow them to waste millions of dollars on absurdly extravagant costumes of no benefit to anyone. granted this is a fund-raiser, & without providing a platform for vanity, by keeping the displays private, not so much money would be raised.

Wikipedia on the concept of "collateral damage" in rightwing violence might have crucial bearing on the deaths at Butler PA--the highly controversial "attempted assassination" of T***p which is being revived online as more & more people question its authenticity. "In interviews for the book "American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing," Timothy McVeigh described the 19 children killed in the 1995 bombing as "collateral damage". He expressed no remorse for their deaths, argu

Every few weeks my printer Bartleby stirs himself to make chuffing vaguely mocking noises but has refused to print anything for two years; clearly Bartleby is much more cunning than his human master but I can pull his plug anytime. I just have not, yet.