Seen last Sunday in Orlando.
Happy anniversary, Anitra! We’re now in “The Ocho!”
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“Inside you there are two bears…”
Ms. Crabitha (@APunishedCrab) won the internet that day.
I saw this car going westward on Waters, just west of 275. I saw some small bumper stickers while we were stopped at the red light and inched closer to get a better look.
Smiths sticker? Okay, maybe they have mopey tendencies.
Unabomber sticker? Okay, I’m putting an additional car length between you and me.
Severed head of Yukio Mishima sticker? Okay — I’m putting at least eight car lengths between you and me next chance I get.
The people who use “woke” as a term of derision are the same as those who used (or still use) the term “politically correct” for the same reason:
I think Mike Godwin — yes, the Godwin after whom “Godwin’s Law” is named — is right when he says this:
Or, to quote Neil Gaiman on “woke’s” predecessor, political correctness:
I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”
Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile.
You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.
I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”
Isn’t that how the rhyme goes? “Thirty days hath February…”
Attention newly-arrived Floridians! The weather may be sunny and pleasant right now (today it’s a mix of sun and clouds, with temperatures going up to 30°C / 86°F), but this will come in handy in a few months when hurricane season returns.
Also: I feel a Taco Warning coming on.