Archive - Plainly, Garbl

🔤 A Writers Guide to Consistent Editorial Style

Everyday writing questions, answered

Feb 22 • Gary B. Larson

✍️ They Wrote a Universal Principle. They Didn’t Live It.

What one sentence still demands of us

Feb 15 • Gary B. Larson

🌟 Love Is Stronger Than Hate

In loud times, love is the long game.

Feb 13 • Gary B. Larson

🟫 Spotlight: Funding Public Education

From local levies to state budgets to federal policy

Feb 11 • Gary B. Larson

🟦 Spotlight: Governance and Democracy

Where to find the guardrails

Feb 9 • Gary B. Larson

✍️ If It Looks Like Terror, Functions Like Terror, and Reshapes Lives Through Fear

Feb 6 • Gary B. Larson

🟫 Book Bans, Education, and Access to Ideas

A practical resource on frequently challenged books — and how students, educators, and communities can respond

Feb 4 • Gary B. Larson

✍️ When Leaders Don’t Slow Things Down — or Say ‘Stop’

How groupthink undermines oversight — from Washington, D.C., to our communities

Feb 2 • Gary B. Larson

January 2026

🟫 Spotlight: Youth Civic Engagement & Student Activism

I first shared this resource last summer.

Jan 29 • Gary B. Larson

✍️ Pressure Is a Civic Duty — And Not Just on Election Day

Yelling at the TV may feel like engagement. It isn’t.

Jan 25 • Gary B. Larson

✍️ Immigration Rights Are Democracy Rights

Why due process, the rule of law, and advocacy matter now

Jan 23 • Gary B. Larson

✍️ Greenland Is Not for Sale

How history, Indigenous presence, and Arctic reality expose the annexation myth

Jan 20 • Gary B. Larson

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