This is why we impeach
Last year at the Oslo Freedom Forum, a man named Fred Warmbier took the stage. It was a bit strange to see a middle aged white American male on that […]
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Harry Potter and The Run for Congress
Originally posted on The Stepmom Chronicles:
We are talking on the phone when you remind me, today is National Book Day. Until that point, our conversation was like every other…
Imagine.
Many political candidates are asking us to imagine a very different future than the species has ever confronted. From Andrew Yang’s pitch for UBI in a world where the biggest […]
One Funeral At a Time
Humans are diminishing the Earth’s resources far faster than nature or technology can possibly replace them. We can stop, anytime. But it seems we won’t, not without a revolution. I […]
Are We Arsonists or Firefighters?
“Not a dollar more than legally required.” This was the answer that Mitt Romney gave to a journalist’s question about how much he paid in taxes. He said it with […]
Song of the crickets
There’s a girl I knew, in the strange way of the Internet. Named for a flower, she is the daughter of a man I met on a defunct writing site…a […]
Glass Half Full of Evil
Are you a glass half empty or glass half full person? What if it’s a jar of broken glass? Spread there, for you to step on? This is a question […]
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
What a difference a day makes.
Famous Last Words
Today I read the last words of a reporter who blogged his own death. His name was Mark Mooney, and I don’t know what kind of reporter he was in […]
I’m not your tomboy or your tiny dancer either.
The first person to call me a tomboy was Cathy Lidisky. “Me and Sandy are tomboys, aren’t we?” she said, as if sure of my agreement. We were in sixth […]
