Note: If you wish to receive, via e-mail, (1) my weekly newsletter or (2) daily copies of these posts, notify me at [email protected] and indicate which you would like. I promise not to share your e-mail address with anyone. To unsubscribe, send me a follow-up email. Tuesday I’ve been listening to Terry Pratchett fantasy novels as I drive […]
Tag Archives: gun violence
Joe Biden as King Hrothgar
Biden’s low poll numbers may be because, like King Hrothgar in “Beowulf,” he can’t prevent violence from breaking out in the great hall.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Beowulf, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Lewiston Maine killings, MAGA Comments closed
Atticus: Future Racist or NeverTrumper?
To see how gun violence and white supremacy are linked, look at “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged banned books, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Comments closed
Gun Violence and Armageddon
Wednesday This past Sunday I shared a number of poems from Lucille Clifton’s Book of Days to reflect on how Christian nationalists, many of them wielding weapons of war, work against Jesus’s goal to bring the kingdom of God to Earth. One poem from the collection particularly stands out in the wake of the mass […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Easter 1916", "armageddon", Buffalo mass shooting, Lucille Clifton, Uvalde mass shooting, violence, W. B. Yeats Comments closed
Massacre Machinery & Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut, one who has seen the horrors of war, was a passionate opponent of guns in civilian hands.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Kurt Vonnegut, mass shootings, Slaughterhouse Five Comments closed
Racism, Traveler of Darkness
Spiritual Sunday When Dylan Roof walked into a Charleston Sunday School class and gunned down those who had welcomed him in, South Carolina poet Marcus Amaker composed the following poem. God may seem absent when hatred opens fire upon innocents, as occurred once again yesterday in El Paso, but Amaker finds hope in the belief […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Black Cloth", Charleston shooting, El Paso shooting, Marcus Amaker, mass shootings Comments closed
King’s Clown Rampaged in Orlando
Perhaps more than any other American writer, Stephen King understands such incidents as the Orlando massacre. The famous horror writer dreams America’s nightmares and appears prescient when they come true.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Beowulf, Grendel, It, John Milton, mass murder, Omar Mateen, Orlando killings, Paradise Lost, Stephen King Comments closed
Atwood’s Dystopias & the Gun Business
Margaret Atwood’s recent dystopian fictions capture how capitalism preys upon sex and fear. We don’t have to travel into the future as the gun industry is taking full advantage of our fears in the present.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged gun epidemic, gun lobby, Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood, NRA, Terrorism Comments closed
