I watched a snippet of Patricia Arquette testing before Congress about the Equal Rights Amendment. In that minute-and-a-half, she said: I come here not as a constitutional lawyer but as…
This is our present situation: The US debt is beyond preposterous. There are children in cages. Some of the children that used to be in cages are… we don’t know.…
I was talking with a friend of mine today, and we saw a military base and discussed radiation poisoning. I said to him, “Killing people always seems like a bad…
Years ago, Abraham Maslowe described a psychological “hierarchy of needs”, the idea being that people could only reach for the next thing after they had dealt with the developmental issues…
I knew this moment was coming, but I never wanted it to arrive. “This moment” being some form of conflict at our southern border between armed troops and unarmed people…
I was watching what amounts to a comedy round table this morning after watching a political round table show. Of course the comedy was better, but neither was too far…
This morning, I heard that there had been a mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California. Because it was a mass shooting (20+ people), I assumed that there was an assault…
I just listened to Joe Biden giving a speech in Hartford, Connecticut and I’m feeling a little nostalgic and patriotic, so I thought I’d channel his energy to write this…
There’s a story in the New York Times Thank says “Trans Category May Be Erased From Forms” if the Trump administration has its way. I am not amused, nor amazed…
There’s a meme going around the internet that says, in essence, that women prepare for going into the world in a certain detailed way that attempts to protects them from…
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