Scathing, Scatological Screeds! (not really...)
Rob Anderson
- Location
- Fremont, California, United States
- Birthday
- October 21
- Title
- Senior Technical Writer and Editor
- Company
- Wouldn't You Like To Know?
- Bio
- Technical Publications professional of 16 years vintage, pro-am filmmaker, writer of fiction, SF Bay Area born and bred, San Francisco State University alum, prevaricator extraordinaire.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The Gymnast and I
September 21, 2011 01:25AM - The (Possible) Truth About
Aubrey Reuben
April 22, 2009 10:27PM - Leviticans Are Not Christians
April 16, 2009 09:06AM - Alan Dershowitz is Culpable
for His Torture Opinions
January 21, 2009 08:17PM - "I don't fully understand why
it is..."
January 08, 2009 10:05PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “This may come as a
shock, but there are 65
million people in
this country
who, be…”
April 30, 2012 01:19AM - “Excellent posting. It is
frightening that Santorum has
gotten
this far - and
inst…”
February 29, 2012 11:10PM - “Reading that this
company is still in business
brought a
wicked little smirk
to m…”
January 29, 2012 03:15PM - “The culture and polity
of the United States is
suffused with
capitalist
puritanis…”
January 29, 2012 12:25PM - “Houellebecq is unpopular
with a certain segment of
the
reading public precisely
h…”
January 28, 2012 10:23PM
Rob Anderson's Links
The Gymnast and I
Few things about life in high school are more demoralizing than being left out of the dating pool. I think this may be especially true for teenage boys, who are in their sexual prime during those fraught years. Being rejected all the time is bad enough; it is infinitely worse to… Read full post »
The (Possible) Truth About Aubrey Reuben
Today's Salon included a short ramon á clef by a papparazzo named Aubrey Reuben. In his rather short confessional he describes how he was a good Jewish boy who, upon discovering the sexual charms of women, dropped all that and started goofing around with a married woman. Then he found a… Read full post »
Leviticans Are Not Christians
Just now I discovered a brilliant new way to describe so-called Christians who would deny gays the right to marry one another. I found it in a letter in response to the Salon article "Gay Marriage in the Heartland", about Iowa's decision to allow gays to marry. The letter writer gave… Read full post »
Alan Dershowitz is Culpable for His Torture Opinions
More than anyone else, Alan Dershowitz is directly responsible for taking torture out of the realm of the unthinkable and into public disourse. It was he, near the end of 2001, who began proffering the ludicrous "torture warrant" idea. His reputation as a liberal's liberal meant that discussing tortu… Read full post »
"I don't fully understand why it is..."
Since Salon has seen fit to ban me from its comments section yet again, this time for absolutely no reason whatsoever, I will post here what I was going to post in response to Patrick "Ask the Pilot" Smith's ludicrous question within his most recent essay.
Smith is forever mystified by… Read full post »
Do the Israelis Not See the Gruesome Irony
As fire rains down on the Gaza Strip, and Israeli officials speak about reprisals in military euphemisms, I am reminded of another whole-sale slaughter. This one in 1944, in the Ardeatine Caves near the Appian Way in Italy. The Italian resistance had recently exploded a bomb, killing 33 German soldie… Read full post »
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