Chapter Three | Main | Chapter Five — Welp, I made the mistake of trying to knock out a few days worth of posts in one day, and after taking a break to watch Agents of Shield (if you’re not watching it yet, seriously do, it’s getting really good), I decided to power on to chapter […]
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Guilt By Association: Volvo-driving Doctor Rhonda’s backstory
Chapter Two | Main | Chapter Four — Well kiddies, today we get to meet the Volvo-driving Dr. Rhonda Marsano, abortionist at the wordily named Whatcom Women’s Center For Choice. I can’t wait! Hmm, this doesn’t bode well for our Volvo-driving doctor, Farris is humanizing her. I mean, it could be possible that he suddenly learned […]
Guilt By Association: Meeting the Merry Band of Protesters
Chapter One | Main | Chapter Three Before I delve into the next chapter, I wanted to go into something I left out of my review of chapter one. One of the most frustrating things about Michael Farris’ writing is his propensity to write scenes where we, the readers, are supposed to empathize with his characters, […]
Introducing the new series: Ryn Reads “Guilt By Association”
Main | Chapter Two Those of you who follow me on Twitter may recall the time that I livetweeted my reading of Michael Farris’ debut novel, Anonymous Tip. I’ve wanted to do something like that again, but I decided to mix things up this time and blog my way through the sequel to Anonymous Tip, with […]
Wichita anti-abortion activists need to stop calling themselves “pro-life”
If you call yourself “pro-life” you need to actually be just that–pro life. As in, you don’t support killing people. As in, you believe in a culture of life, not one of death. That you care about the lives of more than just those who are yet to be born. You know what it doesn’t […]
On the Erick Erickson coat hanger tweet
For those who don’t know, Erick Erickson is the founder of Red State and a Fox News contributor. This is what he tweeted Friday night/Saturday morning. It’s a coat hanger abortion reference. Brief history lesson. In the days prior to Roe v. Wade, some desperate women resorted to using coat hangers or knitting needles to […]
The one thing I can’t write about
For a time during my pre-teen and teen years, I was involved with Operation Rescue. Been there, done that, have the t-shirts (t-shirts I can’t bring myself to throw away). I’ve tried time and again over the years to sit down and write about that time in my life and I can’t do it. Not […]