Category: Politics

  • Cat Scratch Fever

    It’s taken me fifty years to understand this, but most people define good behavior (by themselves and those around them) as that which benefits them, not that which benefits other people …

  • Pull It Together, America

    Call me crazy, call me a misty-eyed nostalgic, but I believe there was a time in this country, a brief, delightful summer, when liberals and conservatives mostly got along with each other. Then political action committees happened. Then the internet happened. Then FOX News happened. Then we all learned how to “unfollow” or even “unfriend”…

  • Sore

    sore loser: a person who becomes very upset or angry when he or she loses a game, contest, etc.–Merriam-Webster I’ve been accused of this a lot lately, so I looked it up to make sure I knew what it meant. When I first read the definition above, I thought, yep, that’s me, all right. Because…

  • Here’s Why It Hurts

    I address this to those in my circle of friends and family who voted for Donald Trump. If you haven’t already unfollowed or unfriended me on social media, then at least I must be trying your patience. For Pete’s sake, the election was two weeks ago! It’s just politics! Get over it, am I right?…

  • Mistaken Identity

    When I was a teenager, I had an experience that most of you haven’t. I realized over the course of a few years that everybody who loved me was wrong about pretty much everything.

  • Reflections on Metal Bikinis

    I feel hesitant about saying any good may have come from the church shooting in Charleston last week, but it seems, at least, that we’ve reached a collectively teachable moment.

  • Racism Is

    I’m no racist. You’re no racist, I’m sure. We’re good people. We’d never burn a cross on someone’s lawn or refuse someone housing on the basis of race or even call someone the N word. Right? So I guess that means none of us are racist. Well…no.

  • A Straight Meditation on National Themes, Part 1

    Unless you’re an actor, it’s probable you know nothing about Tony Kushner’s landmark 1993 play Angels in America…

  • #JeSuisCharlie

    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”–George Orwell

  • That Subtle Difference

    Here’s a fun example of two news outlets, MSNBC and Fox News, reporting the same occurrence in very different styles…