Sometimes I feel like the character in the Dead Zone, waking up from a coma after a number of years. What happened to America? When did we become a country of gun fetishists? Firing a gun is all well and...
I guess young Kyle is having a painful time realizing that he needs to do what the rest of us do and get an education and go to work. His fifteen minutes of fame were too intoxicating and he...
I hope this gets a lot of play between now and the November elections. Different people tried to tell us. Fred Guttenberg, one of the parents whose child was killed in the Overland shooting, told us years ago how things...
This didn't take long. As you are no doubt painfully aware, the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is over and he walks, found not guilty on all charges. This solidifies his folk hero status with the right-wing and they just...
This is one of those shake your head moments, because you can't believe you really saw what you just saw. Simply, a 13-year-old -- who looks 13, not everybody looks the same at that age -- cannot go to...
In yesterday’s NY Times former U.S. Border Agent and author of the best selling memoir The Line Becomes a River grapples with the centrality of firearms to the American mythos, what that has meant for him personally - from...
If you follow the public service announcements from Donald Trump, Jr. these days, you are well aware of the fact that they are not the most coherent and structured broadcasts, to say the least. This latest one has unraveled...
I wrote previously that this time it just felt different. It wasn't just the senseless slaughter of 19 innocents and 2 teachers, it was also the chaotic, massively incompetent response from the police. I asked at the time, If the cops...
This reminds me of the disclosure scene in a sci fi movie, where you find out that the creature pretending to be human is really a vampire, space alien, whatever. The fangs come out, the skin is ripped to...
The nation is already depressed, but Ted Cruz has done the impossible. He has given our depression a depression. He has taken an already horrific subject, made more horrific by two mass shootings in one week, eight dead in...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead