It's a beautiful day in Boston, and a good day for this excerpt from my blog essay "Yes, I UnFriended You 'Over Politics." Have a blessed day, Friends. -------------------------------- NOT MY PEOPLE Here's who I simply don't care to know. Greedy people. Mean people. Nasty people. Manipulative people. Selfish people. Hurtful people. Small-minded people. Cheaters. Liars. Thieves. Bullies. Pretenders. Gaslighters. People who …
Don't forget this. Charlottesville. This happened in 2017. It was horrifying. Look at these faces. They literally want to kill my friends. I wrote about it in an essay called "Say No To Every Nazi."
It begins:
"Right now in Trump's America, there are Nazi-like mobs marching for their right to rid America of "defectives" and "take back their country." They wear no hoods or cloaks. They fly Confederat…
“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it was acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates I still think about Amy, the woman I Unfriended over his first bout with Democracy ten years ago. She was a friend from Diaryland , back when the blogosphere was a relatively small community. In response to …
"But you used to write about politics..." Yeah. At one time I did, yeah. Here in Blogger, back to 2012. You can find all those passionate, researched entries by searching on "politics" in the search field. In my Diaryland blog ,
I have essays from the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections--that is to say,
from the Hanging Chad to the Provisional Ballot to (sweet relief) YES WE
CAN! I don't have any entries from 2020 to July 2025 …
To be perfectly honest with you guys, I didn't really even know who Charlie Kirk was--then he died in the dumbest possible way. Apparently Charlie Kirk was on stage arguing his point on gun violence (he was all for it) when he was blown away by gun violence. Now everyone wants the flag at half-mast. That's an honor. For a guy who was, arguably, not an honorable man. Some civic leaders are refusing to do such a thing. “I condemn Kirk’s kill…
I wandered into the TV room where my little brother was splayed out on the rug watching Miami Vice. I had just turned fourteen and my room was newly decorated with pulpy pages from Tiger Beat , and me and my friends spoke of "cute" guys, which fascinated my little brother and led to lots of questions like this one: which guy was cuter, Crockett or Tubbs? My answer was Tubbs. "Which one is Tubbs?" Mike asked. "Phillip Mic…
Yesterday
on Deadline Whitehouse on MSNBC, race relations leader Heather McGhee
was speaking on the inhumane conditions and the utter disaster that is the Trump border "policy." Host
Nicolle Wallace said, "Who is the person who argues in court 'they don't
need toothbrushes, they weren't supposed to be there for long.' Who are these
people?" Heather McGhee agreed that's a good question. She had an
ans…
Right now in Trump's America, there are Nazi-like mobs marching for their right to rid America of "defectives" and "take back their country." They wear no hoods or cloaks. They fly Confederate flags high, they call for violence and preach freedom. These are
people who view the concept of diversity and equal rights as a direct
threat to them, personally. "You will not replace us! Jews will not
replace us" i…
I'd say that 6th grade was approximately the age when a poor-to-middling American Catholic school began to guide my squad towards current events and how we connect with history. We were but plaid-clad, doe-eyed whelps with brains of soft clay. Big respect for teachers in general, but double for those who steered Gen X , and threefold for teaching at a Catholic grade school. It was a wild, windy, sticky affair. I'm still not over it.
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