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Tag: politics

  • Insomnia

    If you listen to conservative news commentators, there is a strong insistence against anything “woke”. What is it to be “woke“ and why are certain people so strongly against it? Basically, the term means a person who has recently become aware of systematic racism, as in “awoken” to a problem that has been occurring for…

  • Tough Times & Choices

    The movie that I ended up seeing back-to-back with Oppenheimer, was not the Barbie movie, but the 1975 film The Hiding Place. If you aren’t familiar, the story is about a Dutch watchmaker and her family that hide Jews during the German occupation. (There are some free streaming services that have it.) Both films are…

  • Falling From Fame

    I keep hearing people talk/complain about cancel culture and I think there is a lot of nuance being lost in the conversation. First let’s sort out the criminals. Sometimes a popular or influential person commits a crime so they lose both legal status and popular status. The compounding factor is that they may have leveraged…

  • The Games

    I just finished listening to the latest installment of the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, and I have thoughts. While the first three books focused on Katniss Everdeen and her heroic journey, this book looks back at the formative years of Coriolanus Snow and his slide into villainy. His character in the first three…

  • Entitled

    With the recent passing of one of the longest reigning monarchs in Europe, people around the world are sharing their condolences with our British friends. Now that that’s over, I would like to remind everyone of the horrible religious, political and economic systems the monarchy represents. Even though the English crown was downgraded to a…

  • Freedom From Fear

    Each subsequent shooting doesn’t make you sad, it makes you mad. Furious, even.

  • A Blank Sheet

    Since you asked…

  • Time Travelers

    We are all time traveling right now at one minute per minute forward through time.

  • 6 Plagues of the Old Testament

    To use only one verse for guidance is to limit our understanding and perhaps prolong our suffering.

  • I Left My Heart in Asia

    (I can barely begin this piece because it breaks my heart thinking about what happened recently, but I know I will regret it if I don’t.) I have spent a good part of my life living and working with Asians. My best friend in the second grade was from Hong Kong. I had my birthday…