There’s a lot that’s unfair in this world, some of which matters and most of which does not.
There are the more mundane “unfair” aspects of life, like how that one guy in school seemingly never had to study, but he always made perfect grades. Read More…
The electoral college is a fun thing. Lots of people have been talking about it lately, specifically about getting rid of it.
Naturally, there are proponents on both sides of this argument, but also naturally, it’s a complicated issue. Read More…
What’s the quickest way to take away someone’s voice? Drown it out. Dilute it.
Someone can only yell so loud before their voice breaks, they soul crushes, and the opposition prevails. Read More…
We currently have a white, male president. Out of the 45 presidents this nation has seen, only one of them was a slight variant of that. We elected a half-black man in 2008, and then as soon as his two terms in office were complete, we reverted back to what we’d always known. Read More…
Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series was a great wizard, by all accounts. He was the only wizard that Voldemort (the bad guy) ever feared, and he was well-respected by his enemies, allies, and pupils. Read More…
The great Maya Angelou once said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
People, more or less, are predictable. You can observe patterns in traffic to predict when you’re about to get cut off on the freeway. You can anticipate someone running to tell someone else something you said. If that guy or girl doesn’t text you back? Well, the signs were probably there that he or she was just not that into you. Read More…
My grandfather got sick a few weeks ago, so my family and I spent a lot of time in the hospital. While we were there, as so often happens, there was another family that we saw pretty regularly. We didn’t interact with them too much, but they were friendly. They seemed like a good, southern, Christian family. Read More…
We keep talking about the United States of America and Americans as being “better than this.”
“This isn’t us,” we say. “This is America – we don’t tolerate these things.”
But we do. Read More…
I just watched that Bird Box movie that’s got everyone in a tizzy. I don’t really understand the tizzy, apart from maybe the comparisons its general premise has drawn to this year’s A Quiet Place (which I haven’t seen), but the movie, in my very humble non-movie critic opinion, was a’ight. Read More…
I remember learning about the American Revolution in elementary school, again in junior high, again in high school, and yet again in college. By the time I hit grad school? Well, Hamilton was out by then, so I’ll count that as my fifth official re-learning of the war. Read More…