May 1, 2023

Carolyn Rachaner, an anti-masker, is a Denton ISD school board candidate who wants to ban a book she can't spell. And she would fit in as a character in The Handmaid's Tale, a futuristic dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood. Of course, she wouldn't be one of the good guys in the book.

Rachaner asked the school district to yank "The Handmaiden's Tale" (not Handmaid's Tale as the book is actually titled) from the shelves, saying, "Whoever approved this book should be fired; I believe I will have to involve law enforcement; Trash it and order a mental health exam for the author."

It is science fiction, but it was inspired by actual events. Atwood based everything in the book on events she had found in news items published around the world.

Rachaner is an anti-masker.

We really are living in the dumbest timeline. I often wonder what my conservative mother would think if she was alive. Her party voted in the grabber, banned books, and shot up cases of Bud Light. Oh, and I'd have to tell her of a prominent Republican's war with Mickey Mouse.

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