Politics

History Will Remember This Summer as the Beginning of an Age of Crisis — “It’s undeniable now, I guess.” “What is?” I asked. We were at the dog park. Long summer days there. Big guys and little puppies, running in great dizzy circles. Snowy looked up at me. He was wondering too. Dad, can I go play. Sure, buddy. I motioned him and threw…

A violent country gets a violent holiday. — It happened on the Fourth of July. A man somewhere between 18 and 20 years old climbed up onto a roof with an assault rifle. Then he opened fire on a parade. His bullets went into dozens of people, killing six of them. Police call it “a random act of…

Welcome to the land of structural violence. — Here we go again, again. Monkeypox cases have doubled or tripled recently, depending on what parts of the globe you’re looking at. The U.S. is now looking at more than 400 infections across at least 30 states, probably a vast undercount. Meanwhile, our public health departments are doing almost nothing…

Because I Don’t Have a Good Handle on How to Proceed — It’s Independence Day today. There’s been another mass shooting in Chicago. I’ve seen several articles on Medium ranging from the extreme polarity in the nation, to the loss of all faith and confidence in the US government, especially concerning SCOTUS, tragic stories about how Christianity has permanently scarred former Christians…

Research shows that people in power are the most likely to put the onus on individuals while disregarding the context — If you decide to go on a killing spree, it’s because you’re evil, crazy, or both. That line of reasoning may seem pretty normal in the U.S. But that’s not necessarily the case elsewhere. The not-so-fundamental attribution error

Why Music Doesn’t Sound Like Music Anymore — Let’s talk about something completely different today. Something near and dear to my heart. Music. If you’re above a certain age, or even below it, but you listen to a lot of music from times gone by, you’ll notice something. Modern music sucks. It doesn’t even sound like…music…anymore. Not to…