#Pocalypso | Do You Prefer to Be Right? Or Effective?
2020-06-11 – With all the debate about defunding police departments, I decided to take a day off to think about it. The debate doesn’t really seem to be about what […]
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#Pocalypso | I Don’t Believe in Equality
2020-06-09 – I don’t believe in equality. But at the same time, I don’t believe someone should get a leg up because their daddy was a billionaire or because of […]
#Pocalypso | Re-Engineering Public Safety
2020-06-08 – If you’re horrified by the idea of “abolishing” or “defunding” police, I hear you. There are some bad people in the world. We need protection. But let me […]
#Pocalypso | If You Don’t Feel Safe In Your Home
2020-06-05 – One of the most frequent justifications I hear for keeping guns in your home is safety. People say they can’t rely on the police to protect their families […]
#Pocalypso | Bike Ride by the River
2020-06-04 – Almost a normal day yesterday. No better than normal. My son Cal called to say he was biking over. I said I would meet him half way, which […]
#Pocalypso | 21st Human Rights Awards
2020-06-03 – Ayer por la tarde (yesterday evening), I attended (virtually) the 21st Human Rights Awards sponsored by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC). That’s the organization I do volunteer […]
Final Jeopardy Question: Kristallnacht? Or the End of Trump?
2020-06-02 – Yesterday, Donald Trump made a speech of sorts to the nation threatening to dominate looters and rioters. Like all Trump speeches it was a hodge-podge of slogans, but […]
#Pocalypso | Bike Riding and Rioting
2020-06-01 – There was rioting in Chicago yesterday and I went for a bike ride. There is no connection between these two things. They are just two aspects of living […]
#Pocalypso | It Will Take Forever to Read this Novel!
2020-05-29 – I may have mentioned here that I am studying Spanish. Sometimes it seems slow going. Sometimes it surprises me how much I’ve learned. I’ve been working on it […]
#Pocalypso | Harvard v. University of Chicago
2020-05-28 – Harvard versus the University of Chicago. That’s what stood out for me when I read the New York Times story about the white woman in Central Park who […]
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