Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress brought to my mind James B. Duke’s testimony more than a hundred years ago explaining and excusing his tobacco monopoly.
Blog Posts on Politics
They Believe
Dear Believers, dear Marchers and Speakers, I beg you to immerse yourself in our history, in all the aspects of violence so deeply embedded in money-making and male entitlement.
Living with a Fool
But then… an email from a dear friend who has been transcribing and editing and putting together a book of her interviews with Syrian refugees.
Our Time
Not Women’s Month or Women’s Day but Women’s Time—Our Time—long overdue but come at last.
Guns
Where are the fathers?
I Want It to Be Said
By now we all know that the discrimination that afflicts one group afflicts all of us.
17 Favorites of 2017
As this year comes to a close (some might say thankfully), I’ve once again chosen my most popular posts of 2017, based on visits, comments, Tweets and Facebook likes.
Nine Months
President Trump has been “in there” too long. We must gear up for a Caesarian.
We’ll Marry Your Girlfriends
I don’t ordinarily bother with YouTube… but this time, the title got me.
Tea Cake
There is something about Donald Trump that makes his misogyny, vulgarity and ignorance seem not only amusing, perhaps somehow alluring.