- Hamlet’s Father by Orson Scott Card – R A I N T A X I o n l i n e Summer 2011
- Orson Scott Card has rewritten Hamlet. …
Hamlet is also secure in his religious faith, with absolute and unshakable beliefs about the nature of death and the afterlife. He isn’t particularly hung up on Ophelia, either. Throughout the novella, Prince Hamlet displays the emotional depth of a blank sheet of paper. …
The extent of the novella’s failure is surprising—and embarrassing, given that Card is a skilled veteran novelist and Subterranean a well-respected press. The most polite thing for us to do would be to walk away and quietly forget the whole painful exercise. But Card does not deserve our polite amnesia. His failures should be known and remembered, because the revelation in his “revelatory new version” turns out to be a nightmare of vitriolic homophobia.
- It’s been ten years since a whole lot of things « Letters from Titan
- Everything’s been so wrong for so long.
…Government officials give these weird announcements about vague, credible, unspecific terrorist threats against my city…and talk about “the Homeland” like we’re in some badly written, bizarreo-world AU where the Nazi’s won. Any day now, we’ll be allowed to keep our shoes on at the airport though. …That’s what we’re supposed to be grateful for in these last ten years…
What still often feels like a line in the sand of before and after, isn’t. We are not, as a nation, required to be irrevocably changed for some fearful, cruel and wasteful worse. In the midst of really bad things, the minor tragedies of life do not disappear. Neither do the joys.
…too much of what I see in the impending anniversary coverage is pride in the mess we’ve made out of anger and fear.
- Giving a voice to immigrant victims of 9/11 and aiding families
- “I’m still indignant about how bosses never said they had hired undocumented workers, or were willing to identify their employees so we could confirm the existence of many who died,” he said.
- Some of the journalists on the spot in Tripoli have been unable to close their eyes to the bloody settling of accounts that is taking place.
- New Report Shows High Schools Are Misleading (Or Lying To) Students About Labor History | Crooks and Liars • by Kenneth Quinnell
- This problem is nothing new and is something that James Loewen (see video above) first began discussing in the mid-1990s in Lies My Teacher Told Me, a book you need to read if you haven’t already done so. Richard Shenkman also wrote about the problems with history education in the United States in Legends, Lies
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