In Memoriam

This is another "In Memoriam" post that's slightly off-topic. Adrienne Rich died this week, and anyone who knows anything about post-War American letters will recognize the name, and it belongs to a poet who will be missed.

Imagine my reaction when I ran across this this morning:

That's William Donohue, of the so-called "Catholic League," a far-right Catholic supremacist organization.

Maybe my family was strange, but my parents valued education, and that included literature and the arts. And bragging about being ignorant wasn't something one did -- if you didn't know about something, that was the signal to learn about it.

And y'know what? I've discovered life's a lot more fun that way.