As I’ve written before, I haven’t been a practicing Christian for many years. I won’t regurgitate my reasons again, but I handed in my Catholic Club membership card way back in my 30s. This doesn’t mean that I jettisoned my Christian values along with all that dogma and patriarchy, however, because I didn’t. While I…
Category: Politics
True Believers
There’s a type of person I’ve always been interested in. Even admired. The kind of person who believes in something so strongly that they’re willing to put everything on the line for it, including their own life. The kind of person who is willing to die for a cause. It takes courage to do that….
10 Things I Think I Think on June 8, 2025
I’m just back from an overnight trip to Saratoga Springs with M. I took her to see her favorite band, Glass Animals, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, which is located in the middle of this huge state park just outside of Saratoga Springs. Absolutely beautiful and a wonderful place to see a show. I’m…
Inauguration Day
Though I am loath to start the new year off on a discordant note and will get to better things eventually, I do want to mark the occasion of this ominous day in American history before shit goes off the rails. Indeed, it could happen as early as this week, when our new President sends…
You May Not Care About Politics, But Politics Cares About You
Well fuck me sideways. Our long national nightmare continues. I thought it was going to be over a few days ago, but approximately 74 million Trump loyalists–120,000 of whom are located in the right places, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania–disagreed with me. And so a fascist will return to Washington in a few months. Said fascist…
Hey There
Hey now. It’s been a while. Almost a year, in fact. Where the heck have I been? What have I been doing? Not writing creatively, that’s apparent. Let’s see…. The shortest answer is the most boring one: I’ve been working a lot more, focusing on generating as much income for myself as possible while it’s…
20 Years Later
Today is the 20th anniversary of 9/11. The sky is as blue as it was that morning, the sun is shining as brightly, and there’s a nice breeze passing by that portends the arrival of fall. I was 33 years old on 9/11. Now I’m 53. 33 feels like a lifetime ago. 9/11 feels like…
Surviving COVID
No, I don’t have COVID. To my knowledge, I’ve never had it, although there’s a part of me that wonders if that month-long “cold” that knocked me on my ass and gave me conjunctivitis at the end of 2019 was really COVID. I’ll never know. At this point, I’m one of the fortunate people who…
Notorious RBG and The American Politburo
When I studied Marxism and socialism as a Poli Sci major in college, I came to admire some of the ideals of those philosophies, as unattainable as they seemed: elimination of economic inequality, feeding everyone, trading in some individualism for the collective benefit of the greater good. You know, like Spock said to Kirk in…
A Plague On All Our Houses
ROMEOCourage, man; the hurt cannot be much. MERCUTIONo, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as achurch-door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve: ask forme to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. Iam peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’ both your houses! ‘Zounds, a dog, a rat, a…