Blog Category: Taking Offense Post

The interesting thing about ABC’s defenestration of Roseanne Barr two weeks ago when she gratuitously tweeted a racist remark about President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie

The Mum in this case is Barbara Bush, who died April 17. The word, in case you’ve already forgotten, was “racist.”

Words have power. The official story (the story, that is, that we forward-looking, empirically-inclined, reasonable rationalists like to tell) is that their power stems from