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  • DNC, night #2

    Michelle Obama. That’s all you need to review. She even eclipsed her hubby, it was that good: (Kamala Harris) understands that most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward. We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth. If we bankrupt a business or choke in a crisis, we…

  • Reverend Senator

    Wow, the words of the reverend and US Senator, Raphael Warnock! I’m saying it now, he’s got the spirit of MLK and I hope he stays in politics. The man can preach. I’ve clipped some of his speech on day #1 from the Democratic National Convention. This is remarkable, soulful stuff. Covenant with America A…

  • Yellowstone trip

    Yellowstone trip

    This year, my family marked a big milestone: we camped inside Yellowstone National Park. It was fantastic. It was everything I’d hoped for. And it was also a big achievement. We’re not super adventurous campers; in fact we’re fully into the Glamping life. We have a travel trailer. 1A “travel trailer” is the insider term…

  • my work is

    If this is the beginning of the new, perfect Aquarian age, my work is to quiet my mind, open my heart and relieve suffering. Or if this is Armageddon, the end of the world, my work is to quiet my mind, open my heart and relieve suffering. Ram Dass

  • Supporting the podcast arts

    I have been listening to a movie review and pop culture podcast for years, called The Filmcast. It’s great and I highly recommend you give it a listen if you at all identify as a movie buff or film nerd. I’ve been listening for years now and embarrassed to say that I haven’t given (regularly)…

  • New look on life

    New look on life

    Wow, what a difference a week can make! In our new ever-accelerating political cycles, just 24 hours can change an entire landscape. The last time I wrote about this election season, it was Joe’s disastrous debate, where a couple things became clear really fast: The pressure to step down ramped up, especially from inside the…

  • (anti-) Social Media

    A funny thing happened on the way to the internet. As the world got more and more sucked into social media, I began reading Cal Newport and Alfie Kohn and gradually crawled out of them. But I’ll confess that I sort of stumbled, kicking and screaming, into SM sobriety. […]

  • Cyber antitruck

    But what is a truck really? For Musk, a truck is an irregular polyhedron.

  • Democracy Bible Study

    I got this weird little comic book a little while ago. It’s by historian Timothy Snyder. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century was been adapted from Snyder’s full length, “regular” book of the same name (which itself was excellent). Why he or his publisher decided to turn it into a comic…

  • Huey Trump

    Huey Trump

    Huey Long was a 1930s governor from Louisiana . He was a rising star of left-wing politics, known for his extreme populism and radical, rousing speeches. He was further left of FDR, opposed the New Deal as insufficient, and advocated for wealth redistribution. He was impeached by the LA legislature for abuse of power in…

Recent Comments

  1. Thanks for these thoughts, Rob. I really appreciate your perspective.

  3. The Why We’re Here comic uses the R-word, not cool!

  4. Thank God millennial men are nothing like Walt or your husband! Men don’t need to badmouth and disrespect women to…

  5. Me too! It’s such a clever critique of our consumerist culture. And oddly fitting movie for us that night in…

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