When You See Yourself (or No Tuesday is Super)
I remember sitting at my desk in Riverwoods and reading the South Bend Tribune when Mayor Pete Buttigieg came out. Only a few years after I came out, a man about the same age...
Category: Wading into the Potomac
Buttons and Bows
I turned it off after he questioned Sen. Klobuchar if she had ever blacked out after drinking. Petulant men never look good. Sen. Graham had already looked unhinged and took control for the Republicans...
Andrew Sullivan, President Obama, and Saying Goodbye
I subscribed to The Dish when Andrew Sullivan first took it behind a paywall. I like to pay for content I actually read (or that actually creates news). As a founding member, I felt like...
Liberals Never Think Long Term – The Supreme Court
Back in the summer of 2016, I posted too much on Facebook and argued too hard that liberals do not understand what was at stake. Months into the current Presidency, they seem to understand...
How the Obama Administration Let Us Down
When the Russian interference first became apparent about a year ago, people called it politics. People continue to say it’s Democrats crying over losing. But people need to step back from their partisanship harnesses...
Thank You, President Obama.
Most of my defining years, where I developed my core beliefs, occurred during the Bush years as I was a stupid college student. I spent a lot of time arguing with people over human...
One Month Later – Immigration and Almost to 2017
One month ago, I was sitting in our recliner shaking. Today, I’m back at work and back to listening to Slate podcasts that I could not listen to. I’m done shaking. So what have...
Day 3: Now What? My Political Action Plan
One of the best podcasts I have listened to through most of 2016 has been Jacob Weisberg’s Trumpcast. For those who may not know, Jacob is the head of the Slate Group, which operates...
I Don’t Have Kids, I Have Politics
Every election season, I see a number of posts on Facebook where people are pleading that all the political posts don’t change minds, so therefore stop posting anything about politics. The new one that...
