Continue Reading At Our Own Peril There are many points on the Republican platform that one can argue with (or despair over). None is more important and further reaching…
Continue Reading Us vs Them Is there any constituency other than white, male Trump delegates that has not been publicly shamed or denigrated by Trump? With the exception…
Continue Reading Divider or Uniter? Below are some quotes to hold a mirror to Trump who actively abhors inclusive tents, building walls outside of them instead. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/19/1549792/-Donald-Trump-The-Divider “We cannot…
Continue Reading Animal Farm Remember Napoleon and Snowball, two of the main protagonists in Animal Farm? The ruthless leader, the fleeing rebel (assumed to stand in for…
Continue Reading Make America Hate Again The title is borrowed from Timothy Egan’s astute editorial in the NYT a day after the National Republican Convention was over. I can’t…
Continue Reading The True Story of Love This week we covered gentrification, health, sports (I was running from advice, remember) religion, politics and philosophy. It seems fitting to end…
Continue Reading The Philosophers’ Stone(wall) What can I say – wisdom surrounds us. Of a certain kind…. There is the hopeful: There is the resigned: There is the Golde Rule: And,…
Continue Reading Glimpses of Politics (More on the RNC next week…) There are those who think and there are those who shoot. Which way will the country go? This way? Or that way? The aestheticization of violence…
Continue Reading Reassurance Much help out there to answer this question (if you want to avoid stepping into that truck and getting proselytized.) You could rely on…
Continue Reading Mixed Message For free health advice you do not have to look far. However, parsing the message is already challenging if you are of…
