RochesterWriters

Alexander Haitchik provides an interesting travelogue through Tinfoilhatistan,  the world of right-wing conspiracies.
I think the broader dynamic here is similar to Maxine Greene’s analysis of how some people use spirituality to justify social withdrawal.

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court weighed in on the permissibility of a World War I memorial, in the form of an enormous cross, in a national park out West.   The cross could stay, said the Court.You may recall that within days unknown persons, evidently unhappy with the Court's decision, cut the cross from its moorings and removed it.

I headed out to the Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) to see Kynodontas (Dogtooth).

Convicted felons, whom Democrats -- recognizing a natural constituency if ever they saw one -- earnestly seek to enfranchise, no longer will be counted in the upstate population for the purpose of legislative redistricting.Now, in the spirit of the same democratic impulse behind that change, we're going to change the law so college students vote in their home towns, rather than in college towns, right?