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,…
(Shopping) At home for the holidays
When I was a kid, my mother would applaud retailers like Nordstrom who held all Christmas advertising and decoration until after Thanksgiving. Nordstrom’s 120-year-old tradition…
Rittenhouse IV: “Praise Jesus!”
“Praise Jesus!” That’s what the Facebook post said. It wasn’t just one post either — I saw several identical posts in reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse…
Rittenhouse III: Already a martyr
NBC News ran an editorial today stating that Kyle Rittenhouse will become a right-wing martyr if he’s convicted. NBC News is wrong: Rittenhouse is already…
Rittenhouse II: Rights have responsibilities
Kyle Rittenhouse had the right to take up arms. He had the right to bear them to Kenosha. He had the right to join the…
When secret agents meet: Clarification
Mea culpa. The satiric mockery piece I posted on November 2 was universally interpreted in ways I did not intend. When something is misinterpreted by…
When secret agents meet
They’re sitting around a dingy little room in an old trailer somewhere outside Carlton. There are five or six of them, wearing flannel shirts and…