Having resisted Twitter for its reductive abuse of a complex world, I find myself fascinated by its sutra-esque qualities that imply everything from finely tossed shade to revelatory stupidities made explicit by the spelling and punctuation challenged. Trump’s followers are, sad to say, actually worse than he is —likely because he went to “the best…
Thursday, March 1st 2018Sayeth The Lord, Another Year, Another MidtermOr Why Lamentations is my Favorite Book Today while a grifting carnival barking evangelical charlatan lies in state in our nation’s capital being eulogized by a president who just paid off a pornstar, my students will suffer their own reckoning with The Truth. They are taking…
There is an everyday scandal in the WH, everyday the administration hands more and more of the country to the oligarchs, and what is left of our faire land is now “deregulated” for profit. The crisis before us is America’s deeper failure of character, a reckoning with our shadow that may never happen. But we…
There is an interesting piece in The Atlantic magazine about the first chair of Atheism in a University and the study of atheism as a movement, etc. It lays out the facts, all of which strike me all too obvious; for example, not being a believer in god is vilified and largely unacceptable to the American…
As Trump goes to Davos and events of the past week once again included talk of building walls, I admit to being a bit slow on the uptake. We can carry on about Trump’s wall with practical and honest arguments, declaring it to be unnecessary given rates of real undocumented border crossings or for the…
We have intimacy problems. Perhaps like we have never had before. Those problems are not only a feature of our gross failures as men since the beginning of civilization but a result of incremental strides forward as women have empowered themselves and pursued both equality and equity. Not all men resent progress though the majority…
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In celebration of Dr. King today it strikes me as particularly important to begin with the truth. We…
I was born to believe and I’ve spent my life trying that on. It’s not for lack of trying but I’m a believer in nothing supernatural. And I’d rather not quibble over what “supernatural” means either. I won’t substitute either a belief in humans or some claim to the goodness of humanity. What’s important about…
Today’s one screed is brought to you by multiple editorials in the WaPo, NYT, etc., all inspired by Righties embarrassed but not enough by being Republicans. They are still wrong. The Left, meh. Not a winner. You needn’t read further if you just came for the 411. As a kid I thought the best version…
As the facts roll out about the impact of the tax bill we, the rational doing the math and, dare I say, secular wonder how is it that Trump voters swallow this toxic swill. Let’s assume for a moment that they believed his populist backlash message: that elites had failed to deliver and that the…