We’re destroying the planet. It doesn’t matter how much scientific evidence comes out to tell us this; we don’t stop. We can’t stop, as we are permanently stuck in the cycle of obsession over consuming things. Our own government released a report (on black friday to reduce its impact) that […]
Looking at mainstream media around the country, you would have no idea how many people are poor and living paycheck to paycheck in this country. But you will constantly see articles about Trump tweets and Russia. Yet none of these experts can understand why half the country doesn’t vote and […]
It looks like the guy who suppressed hundreds of thousands of votes in Georgia has won the governor’s race by less than a hundred thousand votes. The last two presidents from the GOP didn’t win the popular vote. Every time this kind of stuff happens, people complain about it. But […]
It’s Veteran’s Day, which used to be about celebrating the end of war. Now we just pat ourselves on the back for treating people better than we did during Vietnam. Meanwhile, vets around the country suffer the effects of war and everything that comes with it. Their families suffer it […]
I do think everybody should vote, everybody “knows” that. Everybody also knows that a huge mass of the country doesn’t care. They are utterly uninspired to go to the polls against the work day and whatever other barriers they perceive to doing it. So why do people keep swearing instant […]
I stopped making content for this site because it seemed like the effort of putting it together wasn’t worth the returns I was getting. Not that I wanted a lot of people to see the blog; but that I hoped it would train me in how to have some kind […]
One of the popular go-to bullets for Trumpists who support the newly confirmed SCOTUS member Kavanaugh, is that they believe “evidence” instead of women. It’s a pretty funny, coming from a group of people who deny climate science. But it’s just awful when you consider how much lying the president […]
Exactly 8 years ago, I learned that my West Point classmate Chris Goeke was killed in action around Kandahar City, Afghanistan. It was a significant event for me in that it personalized war in a new way. At that point, I was becoming extremely cynical about our continued role in […]
It is no surprise that Bernie Sanders is the only Democrat from the 2016 race that is still actively works on the behalf of the people. Just this week he hosted a forum with labor groups and called out Disney for paying its workers such low wages. Guess what happened […]
Exactly 10 years ago, I graduated from college. Pretty much nothing went the way I thought it would over the past decade. As it happens with everyone, I’ve realized how different the real world is, compared to the best case scenario that we present to young people. I was joining […]
