Dear Stacey Abrams, I Can Explain
I am about to register as a Republican. It’s not what you think Ms. Abrams, you are one of my heroes. If the world were a degree more rational or just, you would be governor of Georgia right now. The 2018…
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Call the Crime by its Name
President Biden used the G-word. It matters On April 24, 2021, President Biden kept a campaign promise He became the first U.S. president to call the massacre of Armenians by the Turkish government between 1915 and 1923 what it was: a…
MLK Day: Not Just Another Three-Day Weekend
Time for me to step up, finally I am a white person and sadly, I’ve acted like it Not a white supremacist, mind you, nor an active racist — though as Isabel Wilkerson points out in her life-changing book Caste: The Origins of…
Look Forward, or Back?
January is the Month With Two Faces A two-faced Roman deity gives us the name January Or maybe not: Wikipedia points out that while “conventional belief” holds that the first month of the year is named after Janus, ancient Roman…
Can We Play Fair in 2021?
Seeking referees for the Internet and media Long, long ago, in the 1990s, we spoke of the Information Highway Many of us weren’t sure what that meant exactly, but it was going to make life bigger, better, and ever so…