Still a pinko after all these years (apparently)

When I was spending my adolescence in North Carolina, there were a lot of jokes about me being a Communist, mostly because I was Canadian and kinda liberalish in my politics. Neither myself nor any of the people who joked that I was a Communist had ever been exposed to any actual leftism.

Anyway, it so happens that this week the New Yorker has a story about corporate money in North Carolina politics.

Roy Cordato, a vice-president at the John Locke Foundation, told me that concern about worker exploitation was "the kind of thinking that comes from Karl Marx."

In North Carolina, even this far past the Cold War, even among people who aren't middle-schoolers... this is what passes for communism. That you think minimum wage laws and worker safety laws are maybe a good idea.

The Odd Egg

Emily Gravett wrote a picture book in which there is a duck knitting a very long scarf! <3 <3 <3 <3 (Also: nontraditional families, plus the usual Emily Gravett dark humor, and a satisfying denoument.)

Apparently this came out in 2009 and I did not know until now. It's hard enough keeping up with YA new releases without keeping up with books for younger children too. Nevertheless, I am sad I did not know about this book till now!