Tag: Republicanism
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I Made A Terrific New Friend Yesterday — My Diametric Opposite
I am not making this up. I met my diametric opposite a few days ago. We kinda it it off. By yesterday, when we parted ways, I couldn’t get him out of my head. Come the fall, my daughter will matriculate at UC-Davis. Despite the havoc Prop 13 wreaked upon California’s educational system, our state…
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Male Thinking Explained (Warning: You Won’t Like It)
They may come for my Male Card for writing this — screw em! The time has come to man up about how men “man up”: it’s all in our minds. No woman would ever speak the words “I alone can fix it” because every woman knows that’s utter bullshit. No one can fix anything alone.…
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Want To Know What “The Precipice” Looks Like For American Democracy? We’re There… How’s The View?
The Supreme Court just refused to rule on political gerrymandering — EVER — in essence legalizing minority rule in America. Meanwhile — stunning tragedy occurs daily on our Southern border — by design. And also meanwhile, a Russian intelligence asset occupies the White House while his whole political party stands by — because they, too,…
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Conservatism Is A Disease – It Says So Right In Its Name…
Though the word “liberal” has a long history, it’s too malleable, too easily redirected in the current vernacular where words have been unmoored from their meanings. That’s what LYING does. I prefer the word “PROGRESSIVE” to describe my politics because, in a culture where getting people to read a goddamned tweet is a challenge, billboarding…
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Our News Media’s Big Problem – They Don’t Know How To Connect Dots
I have two kids. When they were little, they both delighted in connect-the-dots books. They thrilled to the concept that — as they drew (their pencil being guided by the numbers) — a picture would emerge. And all THEY had to do: connect the dots. That same concept works in and for storytelling. Half the…
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Every Day, I Feel More & More Hopeful; Here’s Why…
I’ll own it straight up: between a mood stabilizer & copious amounts of THC (we’re talking “COPIOUS”), I walk around most days in a state of perpetual bliss. But I do not, for two seconds, ever forget that I live in a shithole of a world. I live in the most fucked up times imaginable.…
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America Is Still Dealing With Its ‘Original Sin’: We Screwed Up On Slavery
If you really think about it — and you don’t have to think too hard — an awful lot of our current debate about racism in this country is as old as the Republic itself. When the Founders of this Republic sat down to hash out what this country was and what it wasn’t, what…