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…
The Party of Lincoln
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…
Stop Trying to Make the Wall Happen
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…
How Left is Too Left?
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…
2019 – Onward to Crazy
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…
The Problem with Bird Box and US Foreign Policy
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…
The Crisis in Yemen – What You Need to Know
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…
Spider-Man’s Civic Responsibility
I finally watched Spider-Man: Homecoming the other day, which I think was the only Marvel movie I hadn’t already seen.
For those of you who don’t know, we actually meet the latest iteration of Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (which came out before Spider-Man: Homecoming). Read More…
What a Flipped House Actually Means
Balance. So many things in life come back to balance. While the extremes are always far more exciting, inspiring conviction, passion, and action, they are not sustainable. Read More…