The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: class

  • This Ain’t No Meritocracy

    Where are those streets paved with gold?

  • Don’t You Have Jobs?

    As a bridgetender I get to look down upon the leisure class, literally and figuratively.

  • Beware of Defective Germ Plasm

    I just read the most disturbing thing ever. Actually, I just skimmed it because it made me too sick to read it all the way through. It’s a report entitled Committee to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means of Cutting Off the Defective Germ Plasm in the American Population. This report was…

  • Give me Capitalization or Give me Death!

    When I was a kid, I don’t remember what age, I had a teacher who used to like to give us a list of vocabulary words to memorize. Then we’d have a spelling bee in class. The first time she did this I was one of the last kids standing when she asked me to…