America

We’re not just too old for war. We’re too old to avoid war. — All of the industrialized countries are getting older, slower, and maybe even a little bit dumber. Over the last 4 decades, America engaged in trade with China in the hopes of using capitalism to turn it into a free country. They passed a law to make Xi president for life…

Forgiveness is weakness. — Yesterday, I read one of the best articulated arguments against the pathological need among many Blacks to forgive whites who have crimed against us. He calls it pathologized forgiveness, a befitting name. That post has inspired me to write about the other pathology: the white pathology of insisting that Black…

An unplanned love story — It really was a lot of things adding up. But as we were driving to a nearby beach during my parent’s recent visit to the United States, my mom asked me: So what do you like the most about living in America? Right then, my mind had already made a…

It turns out the central conservative legal principle of the past 50 years is a load of hogwash — All politicians lie, the old chestnut tells us. But along with that bit of certainty came the understanding that it was most often a gentler sort of lie, fudging unhelpful facts, overpromises made in the heat of a close vote, an over-parsing of words when caught in the wrong company…

It’s only a real location if there’s a track about it — Many famous US locations are usually well-known due to an absolutely banging track about that place in America. There’s no shortage of tunes about inspirational hot-spots. Songs often made due to the influence these destinations had on the artist. From San Francisco to Philadelphia — there’s a great list for…

The raging divide between conservatives and progressives may be at an all-time high these days. While both sides point fingers at the other, it’s interesting to note that neither side is right or wrong. Nor does either side own a superior objective truth. Both sides, taken together, more accurately represent…