Author Archives: Garrett Dash Nelson

City elector, country elector

The Electoral College, let’s stipulate, has no place in a modern election. What made sense for a set of states who considered themselves mostly sovereign in the 1780s, at a time when protecting the power of people who owned other … Continue reading

Crossing the T in Treason

Let me preface this by saying, unequivocally, that Donald Trump should be impeached. Never mind impeached: publicly spanked, or shot into the sun would be even better. We should all wish for Congress to act swiftly to make this happen, … Continue reading

The tip toe

“Toe of mouse, injected, x30.” Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip: Monthly Magazine of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature 25 (No. 242, February 1885), p. 25.

Bounder

Bill Traylor, Untitled (Rabbit), (1940). Smithsonian American Art Museum.

In memory of Donald Hall

Yesterday, I was moving books around in the glass cabinets, and I took out Seasons at Eagle Pond, flipped through it briefly, and replaced it on a different shelf. Later that afternoon I found out that Donald Hall had died … Continue reading