I’m sad. I’m disheartened. And I’m scared. I truly thought that the events of January 6, the criminal convictions, the rape allegations, and the outright bigotry would be beaten back. But this is not the America that I once hoped for. Brian Beutler responded this morning by noting that we are entering America’s New Autocracy, …
Before COVID, Brian and I would go to the Cinemark at the mall in Lexington during Oscar Week. We would get a badge like we were at a film festival. I loved it because for the set price, we could see all the movies up for Best Picture. And that meant we would be able …
In 2017, a retired fighter pilot put out an ad that got the entire liberal community excited for a competitive House seat in Kentucky. Signs were up in our neighborhoods. People were working for her campaign. But then she lost by 10,000 votes. She then ran against Mitch McConnell, collecting even more money, and losing …
At 4 o’clock in the morning, we sat in the parking lot of MedVet as a man, who just finished peeing ten feet from us, started flicking a fly-fishing reel back and forth. Brian and I had no idea what was going on, what to do, or what was going to happen. We had spent …