Alright, I didn’t want to watch the Democratic candidate debates, but inevitably, I did. No one who knows me is surprised by this. Read More…
The Notion of Hope, as Explained through Fiction
My friends – people who actually know me personally and have had any kind of conversation with me that goes beyond the nonsense I post on my Instagram story – can all attest to the fact that I have a “metaphysical” mindset, for lack of a better word. Read More…
The Gaslighting of the American People
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…
Is It Time to Get Rid of the Electoral College?
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…
Why Local Government Actually Matters (No, Really)
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…
Identity Politics in the 2020 Presidential Election
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…