As I continue to read the trades for you I find in the latest issue of edplay, ("Dedicated to the Specialty Toy Industry") an article about yet another criticism of a Dr. Seuss book. Added to the previous calls of tone-deaf racism is the accusation that the book The Lorax is scaring kids:
"Nance Wilson, a professor of literacy education at the State University of New York Cortland, thinks that the book puts the responsibility on kids to change for the good of the environment.
Just days after incel influencer Andrew Tate taunted climate activist Greta Thunberg with a description of his expensive gasoline-powered car collection, Romanian authorities seized several of them, according to Romania's Spy News. The cars include a Buggati Chiron worth 3 million euros, a Rolls Royce worth 400,000 euros, two Ferrari cars, and a Porsche. — Read the rest
Andrew Tate, a misogynist jerk I had not heard of before he took his shot at Greta Thunberg and got his faced rubbed in it by the no-nonsense environmentalist. The universe, in turn, put its boot up Tate's ass, and the pizza boxes in his rebuttal video gave away his location to authorities, resulting in his prompt arrest for human trafficking. — Read the rest
BoJo resigned after a series of scandals, most prominently his illegal covid lockdown parties at Downing Street and his lying to parliament about them. The latest, though, was triggered by his inability to explain why he forgot about sexual misconduct allegations leveled against a recent key hire to his government. — Read the rest
Simon Stephenson, author of the new novel, Set My Heart To Five, wrote the following exclusive essay for Boing Boing. — MF
Welcome To The Misstopia
When I moved to Los Angeles in 2013, there were no mosquitoes here. Maybe it was not a wonder on the scale of the Pacific Ocean as seen from Malibu's Point Dume, or even just the outlandishly-sized produce in my local grocery store, but it was one more way in which the Golden State lived up to its name. — Read the rest
Here's 28 of our favorites from the last year – not all of them published in the last year, mind you – from fairy-tales to furious politics and everything in between, including the furious fairy-tale politics getting between everything. The links here include Amazon Affiliate codes; this helps us make ends meet at Boing Boing, the world's greatest neurozine. — Read the rest
My latest LA Times book review is for Naomi Klein's new essay collection, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, which traces more than a decade of Klein's outstanding, on-the-ground reports from the pivotal struggle to begin the transformational work needed to save our species and the rest of the Earth's living things from a devastating, eminently foreseeable, and ultimately avoidable climate catastrophe.
More than 900 Amazon employees have pledged to walk off the job at 11:30PST on Sept 20 to protest the company's inaction on climate change as part of Greta Thunberg's Global Climate Strike: they are demanding an end to donations to climate-denying politicians and PACs; kicking oil and gas companies off of Amazon's platforms; and for Amazon to be zero emissions by 2030.
Writing on Crooked Timber, John Quiggin (previously) responds to the epidemic of elderly reactionaries piling vitriol and violent rhetoric on the child activist Greta Thunberg and asks, why not let kids vote?
Article 31 of the Russian constitution guarantees the right to peaceful political assembly, which is why Russian opposition protesters like to wave copies of the constitution around as Putin's goon-squads descend on them to dole out savage beatings and mass arrests.
Three years ago, Hong Kong erupted as a youth-led anti-corruption movement called the Umbrella Revolution took to the streets; now, a chapter of the Extinction Rebellion movement has launched in HK.
Months of student strikes have roiled the UK as pupils across the country have refused to go to class while demanding action on climate change, inspired by Swedish student Greta Thunberg's one-person strike at the Swedish Parliament.
