Politics

Does Happiness Even Still Matter? Of Course it Does, But it Doesn’t Happen the Way You Probably Think — Another year gone by. And these days, friends, I feel old. Older than I should. I imagine we all do. These are strange, troubled times. The ship of progress is unanchored from the moor. Rough seas beckon. Another voyage. I find myself thinking, these days, of Odysseus. Not as me…

Sen. Marco Rubio appeared on ABC’s This Week. Jonathan Karl did not leave Rubio’s bloviating about the Chinese balloon unchallenged. Marco Rubio bloviated but failed.

If I pulled half the crap politicians do, I’d be in jail — “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all…

Straight parents treat queer kids like property. Queer people are forbidden to parent. Is there a world beyond the violence of family? — A memory: One day, when I was about four years old, my father broke into our apartment. My mother had run away from him. She had crossed several state lines in the process. Then he showed up: Banging through the screen door, screaming. In the memory, my mother reaches for…

They say the truth is stranger than fiction — There are many conspiracy theories out there. Many of them aren’t true. Many are formed by bitter, angry internet trolls who want to believe something sinister is happening in the world. But, amazingly enough, some conspiracies are true — and very dramatic. The thing is, if people felt they were…

That Weird Feeling in the Pit of Your Stomach? It’s Real. It’s Risk. And It’s Growing Out of Control. — What exactly do the 2020s hold in store for a weary world? There’s a problem that nobody can figure out right now, and it’s called the economy. Take America’s as an example: it just added an astonishing number of jobs, and the unemployment rate’s now at lows not seen since…

I tend to keep my personal political leanings, well, personal. Not even my close friends know how I vote. When politics arises in conversation, I change the conversation. If I can’t, I nod politely while retreating to my mental library to read a good book. People sometimes think they know……