Something Happened In Our Town

Something Happened In Our Town is a book written by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard from the Emory University School of Medicine. A Marshall University article about the book commented: “This New York Times and Indiebound bestseller is written by...

The Umbrage Gestapo

This past week’s victim of the Umbrage Gestapo is Dr. Seuss. Apparently six of his books contain insensitive remarks or pictures and have been taken off the market. I looked up the names of the offending titles and discovered I was familiar with only one of them: And...

Prejudice

Jenice Armstrong, writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, recently wrote a commentary on the Mummer’s Day satire of Jay-Z manipulating Mayor Kenney. As satire, the Mummer performance was pretty lame—but bad taste and cheekiness, like feathers, are the make-up of...