I just got an email message from MoveOn.org, with the subject line “Vigil to End the War in Claremont,” and for a few seconds longer than I’d like to admit, I was mightily confused. We have a movie theater now, and several new restaurants, but those were all the developments of which I was aware.
Have I Really Been Gone That Long?
Published by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English, Michigan State University. Author of Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University. View all posts by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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see, you leave for a little while and all hell breaks out.
No kidding. What I can’t decide, though, is whether this means I need to stay home or stay away from home…
Okay, and now I just got a message entitled “Stand Up Against the War in Rancho Cucamonga.” Either the insurgency is spreading eastward, or somebody needs to give MoveOn.org a little lesson in avoiding ambiguity.