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 […]
I have no idea if people will really look upon this Memorial Day weekend as much more than a celebration of a long weekend. I get it; everyone is already miserable, so they need the time to relax and have a party and get some rest. But in the event […]
This seems really shameful and worth sharing again.
Due to the impossible political discourse in this country, nobody works very hard to understand anyone else. Time after time, we see that people deflect from (or wholly ignore) systemic issues because they are so convinced the other side is wrong. However, very little is done in these interactions to […]
