Now Reading

1. For my current farmophilia: This book is proof that one doesn't need excellent plotting or exemplary subject matter to create a masterpiece. And remember, "every single skein of wool the whole world 'round begins with a sweaty person and pissed off sheep [shearing]".

2. For social justice: Tim Wise is kindred. We read Affirmative Action as the final book in the FNSB School District's "diversity book club" (and how I've come to loathe that overused, trumped-up, self-satisfied term 'diversity'). If we really, actually believed that POC are no less smart and capable as whites then we would not have silently taken part in an educational system and economy that doesn't represent POC in percentages equivalent to that of the general population. Why aren't more blacks in med school, college, whatever? Either you choose to believe they are incapable, or you choose to "believe" that institutional racism is real. Stop thinking it's the other white guy who's messing up here, folks. And get past the guilt and pandering 'color blindness' cowpies you keep stepping in.

3. For inner dreamscape needs: Antarctic Navigation