Mass murder and American history
““Screw your optics, I’m going in.” This is bigger than hate, this latest mass shooting, last weekend, at the Tree...
““Screw your optics, I’m going in.” This is bigger than hate, this latest mass shooting, last weekend, at the Tree...
“What would it take for everyone’s life to matter as much as Jamal Khashoggi’s? I ask this question over at...
“In the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, as white male privilege reclaims its desperate grip on our future, the...
“These words did in G. Harrold Carswell nearly five decades ago: “I am Southern by ancestry, birth, training, inclination, belief...
“This is so much bigger than Brett Kavanaugh, or the outcome of his nomination. Women are suddenly opening their secret...
“Sexual assault is such a nuisance, not only, but especially, for Republicans. Here’s the Wall Street Journal editorial board, attempting,...
“There’s almost no such thing as voter fraud, even though the Trump administration — and Republicans in general — affect...
“I was a hippie/bicycle delivery boy living in San Francisco when the Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago 50...
“The science gets ever more dire. The politics runs the other way. We’ve claimed hold of the planet, but cluelessly,...
““They take advantage of that opportunity and they shoot into a crowd, no matter who they hit.” The news this...
“Consider the limited thinking that produces a concept such as “border security.” The essential assumption here is that the United...
“As the week’s news slaps against my consciousness like road slush, some fragments sting more than others. For instance:…” Robert...
“In Illinois, as in all the rest of the states, it’s legal to carry a concealed handgun, unless you’re at...
“The Democrats have been in turmoil for the last half century and then some, when they abandoned their racist base...
““We offer your love to all of our children . . .” the Episcopal priest said, her eyes closed in...