Y'all know how I followed up an aside on golliwogs with a request for decoding cryptic 20-year-old coded British racism, the other day? The reason that "gollies" and that surreal little episode in a London kitchen - yes, the Robertson's thing was a helpful factoid, it made sense (sort of) of the out-of-nowhereness, because we were having lunch, and ( Read more... )

Hypothetical Case:The country is in a high state of tension, from internal and external pressures fiscal and cultural together. Religious tolerance, class rivalries, international political influences and a lot of the same not dealt with adquately over the past several generations have brought the nation to a point where apparent prosperity glosses ( Read more... )