Is Happiness Possible in a World Going Dark?
I’m in some turmoil about whether I’d be able to cope well emotionally with what our future may hold.We have three crises stacked up on each other: 1) the coronavirus pandemic (with its public health...
View ArticleGood Leadership on the Pandemic Should Have Been Easy
This piece is appearing as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).************************Ever since my teens, with every major issue our nation has faced, I’ve ask myself,...
View ArticleKos is Right: Biden Should Field His Cabinet Choices in Advance
I recall — but cannot locate — a missive by kos arguing for Biden to pick not only a running mate, but also his picks for (at least some) cabinet positions. Although some argue against that course...
View ArticleNostalgia for the World We Knew (A Newspaper Op/Ed in My Very Red...
One of the interesting experiences I get from watching old movies (off my DVR) is that I get to glimpse often the world as it was when I was growing up.I see the skyline of New York as it was when I...
View ArticleIt Is With Humans That Evil Entered the World
This piece is appearing as a newspaper op/ed (in my very red congressional district — VA-06) under the title “One of the Insights in the Book of Genesis.”*****************************I see an important...
View ArticleTroubled and Troubling Notions of "Liberty"
This piece will be appearing, as a newspaper op/ed, in my very red congressional district (VA-06). I live in very red rural Virginia Trump country, with 2nd Amendment “militias,” right-wing trolls and...
View ArticleI'm Always Disappointed When Worthy Demonstrations Break Down into Violence...
In an earlier era – in the late 60s and early 70s – I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I participated in some demonstrations against the War in Vietnam.Most of the people on the streets were...
View ArticleAn Antidote to These Toxic Times
“When the dog bites / When the bee stings / When I'm feeling sad... I simply remember my favorite things/ And then I don't feel so bad.” (from The Sound of Music)This being a time of dog bites and bee...
View ArticleIf It Looks Like Biden Will Win….the Foreseeable Threat to American Democracy
This piece will be running next week as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).***********************It is a virtual certainty that, if Joe Biden appears headed toward...
View ArticleA Possible Urgent New Reason AG Barr Must Be Impeached
Three main points, developed below:There’s reason enough to fear that Barr is being groomed to play a role in a potential overturning of the election results, if they should go against Trump.There are...
View ArticleWhat's John Roberts Up To? Head-Fake to the Left or a Real Check on Trump's...
This past week, Chief Justice came down on the side with the liberals on the Court on two cases: one protecting LGBTQ rights (joined by fellow Republican-appointee Justice Gorsuch), and another...
View Article“Nobody Could Have Imagined”–Why Liberal America Repeatedly Underestimates...
PART IRecently I posted a piece titled “A Possible Urgent New Reason Why AG Barr Must Be Impeached.” In it, I pointed to what I see as danger signs that Barr and Trump may be working together to...
View Article“Nobody Could Have Imagined”–Why It's Important that Liberals Understand What...
(Yesterday, I posted here PART I of this piece: “Nobody Could Have Imagined”–Why Liberal America Repeatedly Underestimates the Darkness on the Right.It describes—and seeks to explain -- the persistent...
View ArticleI'm Going to Challenge Some Trump Supporters. Please Help Me Out with Juicy...
I am composing an op/ed piece that will be published in newspapers in my very red congressional district (VA—06). (I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in this district in 2012, and I have...
View ArticleJoe Biden-- A Transformative President?
This morning I got an email from a friend who, after mentioning several disturbing items from today’s news, wondered: “Are we becoming truly unhinged as a society and/or is this pain a “healing crisis...
View ArticleWhite Supremacy and the Lie: A Long-Standing Unholy Alliance
This piece will be running as a newspaper op/ed — under the title “Racism and Falsehood” — in my very red congressional district, VA-06.************************The wounds of bigotry can be found all...
View ArticleComplete Bankruptcy of Today's Republicans (Volume XLIV)
For this year’s tally of blatant demonstrations of the utter moral bankruptcy of today’s Republican Party, we could start with the Senate vote on impeachment.The trial revealed a President as...
View ArticleTrump’s Fractured Connection with Reality
This piece will be appearing as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).***********************Trump’s Fractured Connection with RealityI’ve never observed anyone as closely as...
View ArticleThe Ideal of the “Happy Ending”: Buoyed by Stories Where the Good Guys Win
This piece has appeared as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).**************************In an earlier piece, I wrote that “I seem to yearn – more intensely than most people...
View ArticleTom Friedman's Brilliant Idea: Two Conditions Biden Should Place on Debating...
Over the years, I’ve had my reservations about New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman: very smart, too often glib and too often in thrall to shiny objects. But his column today is a real home run.A...
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