I Understand You
Hey, you. White dude with the red cap. You with the gun rack in your pickup's rear window. You who live in a white rural town where people are real and eat…
Requiem
"There are times when I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion." --Colonel Dax Paths of Glory I am in a state of…
The Alt-Right’s Self-Image vs. Reality In Two Tweets
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Obama: Trump is Unift To Be President. (Video)
The President's statement is worth watching in full, and he's right. It speaks volumes that a major political party in the most powerful country on Earth isn't willing to turn…
Why I Take Trump Personally
This was my Dad, seven decades ago: He shattered his leg jumping out of a plane just like that one during the Second World War. He studied chemistry. He built…
Just Who Is Trump Anyway?
The strange, orange man giving a prime time speech tonight has been described in many ways. To his fans, he's a brilliant businessman, a winner, a smart negotiator, a…
In At Least One Universe, Sulu is Gay
In at least one of Star Trek's universes--the one controlled by J.J. Abrams, helmsman Sulu has been (or will be) revealed as gay, with a husband and child. Apparently, this was…
I Started Writing My Book About A Mass Shooting 13 Mass Shootings Ago
Yesterday, I checked on when I'd started working on my new book. Turns out that its inception date, under the title The Uninvited Guest (the first and least inspired of its many…
Just Do Your Damned Job
A new law allows doctors in Mississippi to refuse treatment to people they disapprove of for religious reasons. (Guess which people we're talking about.) From The Atlantic: Being lesbian, gay,…
The Week In Weak
So what was weak this week? --I could start each one of these posts with a Trump entry, and that by itself is a measure of how sad things have…