I finally realized the answer to a question that has dogged me since 2016. The best way for me to comment on that answer, in lieu of a real (short) discussion with any trump-supporting friends, is through video. The only disclaimer is that if any of this offends you, please realize that your offense is … [Read more…]
I gained a bit of insight yesterday that has left me questioning the country I love, and my place in it. Up to now, my working theory about trump supporters has been twofold. Either they are ignorant racists like him, or they are willfully ignorant/apathetic to his affronts on our Democracy and fellow Americans. Their … [Read more…]
Merrick Garland was a standout student. President of the Student Council, class valedictorian, and distinctions as both a Presidential Scholar and National Merit Scholar were just some of his early achievements in high school. He attended Harvard for his undergraduate education, and graduated as valedictorian in 1974. He attended Harvard law school and graduated magna … [Read more…]
False Balance aka False Equivalence aka Bothsidesism. In 2016 it was hush-money payments to hookers AND members of an election campaign soliciting foreign assistance from Russia’ being given equal media treatment to ‘her emails’. More recently, it’s ‘fine people on both sides’ when white supremacists march through a city’s streets while the White House labels … [Read more…]
I’ll likely never type these words again in my lifetime. At this time, however, I have no other choice. Michele Bachmann was right. She may be crazy and a racist, but she was right. Though her frequent comments about the ‘End Times’ were often made in criticism of President Obama’s policies, we are indeed on … [Read more…]
And so it begins…I was involved in a discussion the other night that arose from the news that three statues had been toppled in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The statues were of Francis Scott Key, Ulysses S. Grant, and Junipero Serra. For what it’s worth, this type of protest action is part of a … [Read more…]