Despair and Hope

Four years ago, I wrote a small and unmemorable piece just days after that election trying to restore some optimism and faith in those who were shaken up after Trump was elected President. In my office, a very diverse and progressive company, I vividly recall people walking around with tears in their eyes, others literally…

I get it – I don’t get it.

There’s nothing more I can add to the conversations that the county is currently having (again) about how we’ve got a toxic police culture, can’t graduate our society out of the entrenched racism we were built upon, and now yet another series of American generations is left to hope enough of our country’s men and…

“Stick to Sports,” Shooting People, & Other New Traditions

Being a racist asshole is nearly as popular as murdering people wholesale.

The Modern Republican, a.k.a. the Romantic Fall of American Decency

What a weird time to be alive. A person who has never once in his life held an office that was ever intended to serve the public was elected Leader of the Free World courtesy of perhaps the most selfish and emotional electorate to ever cast a vote for the Presidency.  This was aided by…

To Be American.

Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. – The United States Bill of Rights Part…