DAMN, DAMN HURRICANES
Oh, Jesus – here come Mary and Joseph.
Hurricane Jose, with Hurricane Maria coming close behind at an estimated Category Five, are in progress. What hurricanes do is rather fresh in my mind.
I just got...
AND THE PREDICTABLE BEAT GOES ON
The “town meeting” on CNN that was supposed to be a debate was, as many of us suspected it would be, a monstrously one-sided setup for the prohibitionist viewpoint. It should go down in...
DAMN HURRICANES
When my county announced the evacuation order with Hurricane Irma coming on fast, I had the good fortune to be in Illinois teaching a class: had “pre-evacuated,” as it were, and personally escaped the...
WHEN ATROCITY MEETS NAIVETE, POLITICAL IDENTITY BLINDNESS, WISHFUL THINKING, AND LIES
A mad dog runs loose and murders seventeen helpless victims in a high school in Florida. Helpless onlookers all over the world cry, “We have to do something!” And, as always, that turns into...
HYPOCRISY in re: CHARLOTTESVILLE
The recent violence in Charlottesville, culminating in the death of a young woman and the injuring of several more people at the hands of an apparent racist has triggered grief, outrage, tribalism and…hypocrisy.
I’ve written...