Two other pilots beat him to it Occasionally, circumstances conspire to rob me of my writing time. This is a circumspect way to say I…
Five daily disses that demonstrate white privilege
AKA, “Did you see that?” EDITORIAL NOTE: I am pleased and proud to introduce my first guest editorialist. Using the nom de plume Super Mrs.…
White privilege isn’t what you think
A brief primer on what white privilege is — and isn’t When I first saw the term “white privilege” being used commonly in discussions on…
The definition of an extraordinary woman
She was confirmed. You know deep down she deserved confirmation. Ketanji Brown Jackson is, after all, a woman of great professionalism, accomplishment and dignity. She…
Unfit for a crown
What do a Washington-state beauty queen and several Southern rednecks have in common? It’s not a joke, although it sounds like the beginning of a…
Battle flags
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…
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…