Spare me your media-bashing conspiracy theory

Left and right and moderate memes use news media as a straw man punching bag and I’m sick of it.

Kathie Lee thinks I’m a d**k

Or, how social media undermines thoughtful discourse

After football and broadcasting legend Frank Gifford died on Aug. 9, his wife Kathie Lee took understandable time off from her broadcasting gig on NBC’s “Today.”…

How to be a Culture War pacifist

These are tough times for families and friends on opposite sides of the Culture War. Young people…

Occupational hazards of a right-winger whisperer

The last six months has been brutal for culture war pacifists and peacemakers. It’s getting harder and harder to penetrate the outright derangement that has seized the far-right-wingers we call friends and family. My Facebook newsfeed is a…

Twentysixteeny*

*defined by the great Frank LoMonte: (adj.); not just a tragedy, but an easily avoidable tragedy the senseless occurrence of which unsettles one’s faith that life is fair and that mankind is fundamentally good.