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Staying Calm in the Face of Trumpism
Just a few days later I was presented, apparently by cosmic fate, two items that have given me a new perspective on how Facebook and other social media have helped to make compromise nearly impossible and how I, in turn, could make my role in protesting obscene policies more effective, rational, and humane.
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Still Fighting for Clean Air Today
“People would come to the town, and they would say, ‘What’s that smell?’ And people who lived here would say, ‘What smell?’ And my grandpa would say, ‘Well, it smells like money.'”
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The Peaceful Transfer of Power and Hope
Inauguration Day for Donald J. Trump is in three days, and we will watch again as the transition of power from one party to another occurs peacefully and completely in a single day. Quite a remarkable occurrence.An occurrence, in fact, that forms the bedrock of a true democracy. I look forward to that peaceful transition…
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Goodbye, 2016. Hello, 2017
We’ve had quite a divaricate year, all in all, one with a split personality, one that feels differently to me depending on whether I think about what happened in my personal life or what happened in the nation and the world. Perhaps it is always that way, but 2016 certainly feels different. Personally I had…
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Maybe It Won’t Be All Right
Donald Trump, a despicable human being, won the presidential election last night, and I am scared out of my mind about what he might do. How many troops will die in a war he is almost certain to start? How many poor people will die without the care they would have received from the Affordable…
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Getting Ready to Rumble! Or, You Know, Write.
My first two weeks of retirement have been spent partly getting used to being retired and mostly working around the house, doing a bunch of things I needed to do and normally would have done on weekends. Well, I’m almost finished with those kinds of things and will soon be really digging into my writing.…
