Perversion, in its dictionary definition, takes us much further than so-called unconventional sexual depravity as it is commonly used in everyday conversation: “[T]he act of changing something that is good or right into something that is bad or wrong; the result of this: the perversion of justice; Her account was…

Many of our most severe issues and their obstacles to sound public policies for dealing with them are coming together within the story of the recent Club Q mass shooting in Colorado Springs. From the proliferation of the acting out of toxically masculine second amendment fantasies and the cynical mythologies…

Life’s little big stressors are running rampant these days, at this stage of my life. Health issues have started dominating calendars and conversations. Friends in their late 50s and 60s are splitting up and getting divorced. The ugliness is wrapping around everything until it is all one big throbbing mass…

While there is hardly anything more fearful than a fascist, their fear and loathing of curiosity, novelty and diversity makes them even scarier to people who find themselves for one reason or another at or beyond the fringes of what is all-too-casually known as normal society. …

Election Day 2022 slowly approaches while Halloween rapidly fades in the proverbial rearview mirror. The News business has spent all year pushing a narrative that a Republican congressional flip is a foregone conclusion. Lately, I’ve seen stories about Republicans “closing the gap” with Democrats. …

My own Halloween nostalgia revolves around memories of small piles of raked leaves burning in the curbs between the driveways of my old neighborhood. Now, the neighborhood where I live hums with the sputtering whine of pull-start leaf blowers and exhaust fumes carried by chilly autumn winds. It is bad…

“Congress shall make no law,” declares the first amendment to the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution, “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” As such, the News business remains the only private industry with a Constitutional mandate. But in reality, ever since public airwaves ceded dominance…

We have all heard the expression that there is no such thing as a stupid question. Genuinely stupid questions are real, however, and are the kind for which the questioner does not really want nor cares about any answer. For example, Republican US Rep. from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor-Greene recently went…

Creaky supply lines. Border crises. Woke mobs and cancel culture coffins. Inflation. Our last elections, maybe…. “…end of land sadness end of the world gladness all you San Franciscos will have to fall eventually and burn again.” Stealing titles from Jack Kerouac now, my creativity is frayed and in desperate…