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Tag: politics

  • Letter to The Men

    To my brothers, uncles, cousins, nephews, former bosses, colleagues, former students of voting age and friends, Please, please cast vote for Kamala Harris this week at the polls. I know it’s unusual for me to draw a such strong line in the sand, but I feel like this election requires it. In 2016, I assumed…

  • Vote for Life

    If you want to see less abortions in America, then I suggest that you vote for Kamala Harris this November. I know that this may seem counterintuitive, but the number of abortions actually goes down when Democrats are in office.* The reason is that it is not the lack of availability of safe abortions that…

  • Of Men & Gods

    If you’ve gotten a glimpse of Netflix’s Kaos and Jeff Goldblum playing Zeus, you’re in for a wild time. It’s a modern retelling of some of the Greek and Roman myths. It would even be a comedy, if it didn’t all feel so familiar. Hera and Zeus live on a mountaintop mansion that looks like…

  • Class Action

    Yesterday, I assisted in a class with a Master teacher. It was a 5th and 6th mix with 31 students. One was out, so there are potentially 32 total.  In addition to the large number, having a grade-split class is no joke. First, the teacher helped half of them log into the 5th grade math…

  • Approval Rating

    Now is the time when we hear of politicians and their approval rating by the population. These numbers are gained by doing surveys. Someone running for office needs at least half of the voting populace to approve of them during the first week of November.  But how do the rest of us stack up, and…

  • The Other Other

    If I told you, “There is somebody at the front door,” Could you tell me what they looked like if my description did not include anything other than what I said already? Probably. You could go by my lack of description and rattle off all the “normal” things. First, we assume that it’s a man,…

  • Angry Young Men

    I keep hearing voices in the media wondering about the motive of the attempted assassin. I am not sure what his particular ideas were, but it seems to fit pattern of public violence. Shooters are often angry young men. There have been several who went through high school, outside of the group, seeming inconsequential to…

  • Ballots over Bullets

    When I was a kid, I asked my Dad what the word “society” meant. He said that it meant “other people”. What I didn’t realize is that he was making an observational commentary. While the dictionary meaning is “community (that includes ourselves)”, he was implying that, in common use, people want someone else to take…

  • A Prayer for Peace

    I haven’t logged an opinion on the Middle Eastern conflict until now because it’s been so fraught these days. Everyone seems to hold a rock-solid stance and everyone else is being called out who oppose it. Yesterday I saw in the news that there had been “an explosion” at a hospital in Gaza. The passive…

  • Bag Boys

    Why does the Boomer Generation push back against environmental improvements? I keep getting these posts and memes about how annoying single-use bag rules and plastic straw bans are. Of course I get that it is kind of frustrating when you’re used to having an endless supply of free plastic bags and straws at the store…