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The Time Machine, by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #321 | @MDWorld

August 23, 2013 Michael Davis 1 Comment

Wells Time Machine White500One of my favorite things to do is read.

I love to read. I love it more than painting, drawing, and writing, and boy do I love to paint, draw, and write.

I read everything I can get my hands on. You name it. I’ll read it. What I like to read more than anything else is books about time travel.

I think that’s because I’m a history freak. I do so love me some history. I love it more than painting, drawing, and writing, and boy do I love to paint, draw, and write. I’m actually writing a couple of novels, and writing and illustrating a couple of graphic novels.

Of those four projects, none are set in the present. All take place in the past. I do so love me some past. I’ve often wished I had a time machine so I could see history unfold before my very eyes.

A time machine.

Ha! That’s just silly, right?

Except, well…

I did it.

I created a time machine.

I know, you don’t believe me, but I can prove it. I can prove it because I fucked it all up.

Somehow, while traveling trough time, I screwed up the timeline. How so?

This so…

Russia is treating homosexuals like the Nazis did. New York is asking Black and Brown people to show their papers. And North Carolina has reinstated Jim Crow voting criteria.

And that’s not the worse of it.

I’m sorry, I really am.

I thought time travel would open up a whole new world.

Instead, it looks like the old world is back.

I don’t know if I can fix it, but I’m going to try my best. I do know this — I can’t do it by myself.

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  1. R. Maheras
    August 23, 2013 - 6:15 am

    Michael — I’m sorry, but calling North Carolina’s recent voter ID law a reinstatement of Jim Crow voting criteria is trivializing the seriousness of what historic Jim Crow laws really were.

    Until your post, I hadn’t followed the specifics of the NC law, just the fact that it had happened. Now that I’ve looked into the details of it though, comparing it to the Jim Crow laws of the past is not just an exaggeration, it’s historically inaccurate.

    I do agree with you regarding your other two examples though.

  2. Motu
    August 23, 2013 - 2:04 pm

    R,

    As a black person ANYTHING that makes it harder for us as a people to vote smacks loudly of Jim Crow. Colin Powell siad yesterday, there IS no voter fraud and making it harder for poor people and people of color says to those people, they are being punished. Punished for what?

    Punished for not being white upper middle-class that’s the reality of the GOP attack on voting rights.

    Not my words; words from a Republican who also knows a little bit about being black, he was speaking in front of and about the Governor of North Carolina and his decision to sign that voter law.

  3. Vinnie Bartilucci
    August 23, 2013 - 6:51 pm

    One is never “sorry” when one time-travels.

    One must be so, SO sorry.

  4. Rene
    August 24, 2013 - 1:28 pm

    Jim Crow was racism pure and simple, this stuff… it’s more machiavellian than racist. The Republicans would like to have blacks on their side, but they can’t, since Free Market Economics just don’t appeal to black people in general. So you have this stuff.

    But let’s say that a miracle happens and the GOP finds some black Presidential candidate of their own before 2016, that is very charismatic and successful. They’d drop this tactic of voter registration ID faster than a prostitute drops her panties.

  5. Motu
    August 25, 2013 - 8:45 am

    Rene,

    To me, ANY practice that discriminates against a race of people for ANY reason is racist.

  6. Motu
    August 25, 2013 - 8:48 am

    Vinnie,

    I know. The last time I tried to fix it I ended up fucking up the next Batman..,

  7. Reg
    August 25, 2013 - 7:03 pm

    With Elon Musk biting of my ideas for future rapid transit I wrote in the Homemade Time Machine and the mOTu making his own forays (and making a mess of things while doing so!) in the timestream, it may be time for me to release the powers of Steiner & Steiner and start takin’ names.

    j/k Elon.

    REALLY j/k mOTu…please put away the D.R.

    On second thought…why not mount it on your time machine and take a trip due south. A warning shot should suffice.

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