Political Anger Does Not “Purge” Injustice—It “Rehearses” Injustice
2018-07-05 – One thing that extremists from both the right and left agree on is the view that anger is essential. That the expression of that anger leads to catharsis. That […]
Tag Archives: Culture
GOP Wants to Keep Abortions as a Perk for the Rich
2018-07-02 – I am not a fan of abortions. To me they represent a sub-optimal solution to a dreadful problem. This does not mean that I would ban them. But […]
An Evening of Theater at the Juvenile Detention Center
2018-06-18 – Friday evening, Kit and I dropped by the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center at Hamilton and Roosevelt Road to catch a preview performance by the Temporary LockDown Ensemble […]
The “Reality” of Unauthorized Immigration
2018-06-14 – For all the political hoo-hah about unauthorized immigration, the numbers make me question how much of a problem it is at all. I think it is more of […]
LGBTQUIA+ . . . ROYGBIV
2018-06-11 – Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic for the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Not all languages have words for these exact colors. […]
Trolling the Trolls – Why Liberals Should Stop Hating the Right
2018-06-07 – I kinda got into it with a liberal Facebook group the other day. They posted a graph purporting to show that white Evangelical Christians have no redeeming qualities. […]
I Don’t Believe (Most) Flat-Earthers Believe the Earth Is Flat
2018-05-31 – I don’t believe (most) flat-earthers believe the Earth is flat. (I qualify this with the word “most” because I’m sure you can find someone who is a true […]
Having Strong Opinions When You Don’t Have Much Stake in the Outcome
2018-05-21 – People in this country have a lot of opinions. In the world of politics, most of us don’t have much of a personal stake in a lot of […]
How Do You Reason with the Anti-Religious
2018-05-10 – I have a number of friends (real and Facebook) who are anti-religion. I mean ANTI-RELIGION. They see religions as the main provocateurs of racial and ethnic strife, not […]
Listening to the Other Side
2018-04-26 – We live in a world of contradictions. We are more interconnected than ever in history, but the freedom of the internet has allowed us to sort ourselves in […]
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