On Becoming Anti-Bernie

I started out liking Bernie Sanders, though I leaned slightly toward Hillary Clinton. Yet I’ve come to the point where I can barely stand his face, and I just want him to stop jabbing his finger as he brays the same slogans in every single venue, over and over. How did I get to this…

I Am Beside Myself

FBI Director James Comey should resign or be removed, and then serious housecleaning must begin. Regardless of your political leanings, Comey interfered with an election for personal political purposes — not to get Trump elected, but to save his own ass ahead of leaks that he could not prevent…

Seize the Narrative

Many have written about the threat Trump’s election poses to the rights and lives of millions of Americans — people of color, Muslims and Sikhs, Jews, immigrants, women (especially women who are not white), LGBTQ Americans, and the disabled — and to democracy itself. Recognition of this…

Gutted

I will never call him President Trump. It is childish and I know it. But I cannot and will not.

I understand that he was democratically elected — with the Wikileaks thumb on the scale, among other disgusting and frightening factors — and I accept those results as I must. My candidates…

Resistance is Not Futile

Lessons from North Carolina

I read this piece by Reverend Barber the other day and it helped me greatly: