The Geecologist

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

Jan 20, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

Along the block some people were out on their porches looking at him and the motorcycle. The shutters across the street that slowly flipped up and down to get the proper focus indicated that he also had a considerable unseen audience, for a police motorcycle in the...
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

Jan 19, 2016 | Featured, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

It turned out that public shaming had once been a process. A book of Delaware laws I discovered at the Massachusetts Historical Society revealed that if Jonah had been found guilty of “lying or publishing false news” in the 1800s, he would have been “fined, placed in...