The current (soon to be ex-) WH occupant has signed a last-minute stimulus bill into law. What’s in it? Among other things, it has payments direct to people like the last one did in late March. People who got money the first time around will get money now. Yay? Not really. For most people the…
Election done. Declared winner. A speech or two. Some cheering. Some howls of pain and anger. Lots of vitriol on social media on every possible side. Next? What does come next for the US? Whatever comes next, it won’t be easy. The pandemic is still sweeping across the states, and new cases are picking up.…
Last night we saw how a bully, coward and unfit person rams himself into every conversation. The 6 year old in me was ready to take on this schoolyard bully, fists at the ready (thank you, my dear friend AAKH, for your post on FB!). The adult in me is still ready to fight, though…
US culture is failing boys left and right. Parents fail to give their sons the tools to become good men, good partners in relationships, good friends, good parts of their communities. Boys become young men who bully, assault. Boys become men who rape, cheat, lie. Boys become front page news across social media for all the wrong reasons.
The US is not kind to those who cannot ‘pull up by their bootstraps’. The security nets set in place have frayed to the point of breaking under the weight of moneyed interests whose focus is the bottom line
The current debate over removing or leaving in place statues of people (okay, mostly white men) who did something in history should be thought of as ‘should we revere these people? Or should we leave them to history to explain in all their human foibles? Take Teddy Roosevelt for example. The statue in front of…
By now we have all seen and heard the ripples coming off of the murder of George Floyd. Cities are defunding their PD, and Minneapolis is even going so far as to disband theirs. What I am asking is ‘what comes next?’ Once cities and towns take these steps, what should come after? I have…
Stop being pains in your parents behinds.
Okay, Gen X.
There’s been too much rain lately, too many days of wet. Wet roads, wet trees. Slick roads. Slick words from many corners of the news and social media. And too many out there lapping up those slicks.
