When I was in high school, I took a political science class. The teacher was a proud Democrat who made no secret of his leanings…
The dirty meme
When I was a kid, my father was a police officer in a large Southern California city. In the turmoil of the 1960s, law enforcement…
The ice cream wars
Today, two things happened that made me think we’re sometimes doing more harm than good when it comes to masking requirements and how we react…
The leader she was meant to be
She’s clear-eyed and focused — she’s confident she knows what she’s doing and where she’s going. I suspect this quality characterizes most aspects of her…
Home is where the [vote] is
Now the fun begins. Maybe it’s not really fun but, I’ll tell you, you can see where they’re going to go with this. It’s as…
How dare you?
How dare you? How dare you deface this sacred symbol with your crybaby nonsense? You made a choice to refuse a vaccine that countless health…
A dangerous gift
Is this what we want? Have we rejected our pluralistic roots? Do we now favor a narrowed ideology, requiring everyone around us to fit into…
“I will fucking shoot you!”
They were little paper turkeys, “thankful turkeys” they were called. You know the type of kids’ craft: turkeys cut and colored from outlines of human…
A letter to Jussie Smollett
It must’ve sounded good at the time. I mean, even though you probably thought it through, you didn’t think it through well enough — your…
“You have to learn not to get caught.”
It’s about time. Prior to COVID, the U.S. was experiencing notable mass shootings at the rate of about one a week. Other than certain war-torn,…