It is very easy for folks my age to say hurtful things about older generations.

The body of works that is the entirety of human writing serves as a sort of collective consciousness.

One of the more humbling realizations during this Trump administration is that it has forced me to confront how much I don’t know.

On 5 November 2008, John McCain conceded the presidential election to Senator Barack Obama with the following remarks. 

In the current climate, outrage fatigue is a real likelihood and a mortal threat. 

This past February, I received my Canadian citizenship certificate.

...their classic concert album had valuable advice for certain politicians--as you may recall, its title was “Stop Making Sense.”

In the English version of the Grimm Brothers’ story about the Frog Prince, the prince turns into a regular guy when he gets kissed. 

I am a full-time Tier 1 Amazon Associate at a Fulfillment Center. It’s a love/hate mutually-parasitical relationship.

I am a lifelong Republican who is sorry your party have decided they don’t want to win any elections for a while. 

The current terms of left and right, Democrat and Republican, are in part responsible for the current dysfunctional state of our government

Unlike the lawyer Saul Goodman in the TV series Breaking Bad ... you can’t call Saul Alinsky.

For a couple of decades I had a job (well, a series of jobs) as a program evaluator for state legislatures.

It’s pretty frustrating, really. Just about every day there is a story in the formerly plausible news publications and websites ...

The cumulative effect of the past month’s assault on democracy and on the safety and welfare of our people weighs heavy on my heart ,,,

A response to signs posted in Canada

For several centuries the world has usually had two major groups of states and a few minor ones. 

I have had a difficult time this week trying to write a single-topic column. There is just too much ...

Last year, we moved to “the Friendly City” of Harrisonburg, Virginia. But why "friendly?"

This is the title of a song by the wonderfully demented genius Tom Lehrer, but it seems to fit here ...