2016 Election

Constant crisis breeds despair

In light of today’s executive order regarding family separation, keep this in mind:

* We’ll still be holding families in camps and cages for an indefinite period of time for committing a misdemeanor.

Still surprised when Godzilla ravages Tokyo

We are illiterate and indifferent to the impact that has on our lives. Witness…

A group of shady billionaires put a racist fascist in charge of their data science firm. The firm went out and built some dumb personality quiz…

Let’s organize around the good

Resistance is important, especially under our current legislative conditions and with the president’s authoritarian tendencies. It ground away the American Health Care Act, and it will continue to consolidate and grow. It will have to. The Trump administration lives beyond…

The ‘chaotic landscape’ that DeVos built

My great-grandpa started working at a coal mine before he turned 10. Only one of my grandparents finished high school. My dad worked in a coal mine; my mom taught second grade. They both went to public schools and a state college. My brother and I did the…

A welcome mat for other petty, strange, menacing behavior

My friends spent inauguration day sharing words of hope with one another. It was nice experience on a sour day. Compassion. Vigilance. Grace. Decency. Resistance. Perseverance. Courage. Solidarity. Integrity. Wisdom. Moxie.

A philosophical crisis masquerading as a dirty joke

You would’ve thought that the president-elect’s sidelong quip about paying Russian sex workers to urinate on a hotel-room bed would have been the low point of today’s press conference. You’d’ve been wrong.