“Power is not what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.” — Saul Alinsky Elections have consequences. So say the victors to justify their ends and means. Perhaps the American Dream is to live without consequence: no mistakes, only cheapness we are free to later discard. Why deliberate honestly? Abundance…

By clicking here, you can download a Word document (or click here for a PDF version) which contains a template letter to be sent to each of the five members of the Board of Governors of the USPS. (You can also check out and share my Open Letter to the…

Board of Directors of the United States Postal Service Postal Service Headquarters 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW Washington, DC 20260 To the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, I write to express my shock and dismay at the steps that have recently been taken by the Postmaster General…

Trump Is Trying to Steal the Election — Here’s How We Stop Him “Free and fair elections, genuinely contested, are the basis for the authority and legitimacy of all governments.”[State.gov] — Michael R. Pompeo, United States Secretary of State Growing up in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, my mom saw countless “free elections” in which the Communist Party’s pre-selected candidate would…

In 100 days, America will decide its future, and, in the process, perhaps the future of Democracy and the planet. At the very least, it is clear that another four years of the status quo would tear completely the fraying fabric of our nation. I won’t go into the litany…

One of the defining characteristics of the past four years is how exhausting they’ve been. The daily onslaught of despicability and ludicrousness on the part of the president has not only been dispiriting, it has served to obfuscate the real harm his administration has done — to the nation’s institutions…

A friend texted to say it’s irresponsible to protest during a pandemic. All those people crowded together become vectors for the virus, which doesn’t care about race. I hadn’t thought of Covid-19 as post-racial, the enlightened bug. My friend fears a second wave of infections. Like millions, he’s been quarantined…

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” — Václav Havel Manumission 1 I so want to be optimistic and airy, to write of our…

“If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.”- Bill Gates We admire the philanthropist for “giving back” and ignore what they first had to take away. It is a sin to need help and a blessing to offer it; there is profit…