[Author Catherynne Valente (previously) posted this outstanding rant to her Facebook page; I asked her permission to repost it here so it would have somewhere to live outside of the… Read the rest of the article: Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midst

If you don't know what I mean when I say the word Eurovision — Greetings, fellow American! Much like the World Cup and universal health care, it is hard for many of our countrymen to grasp just how big a deal this thing few here have heard of or care about has become outside our borders, and how popular it really is.