America’s Anxiety Attack

I’ve seen a lot of vitriol in the past couple of days, criticizing the “morons” who got Donald Trump elected. Expressing shame at being an American. There have been pleas to stay and fight rather than move to Canada. A lot of people feel a real change in their perception of personal safety. Most people…

Mistakes Were Made: My Thoughts on Ferguson and American Delusions

In the seventies — like all good liberal children — I believed that peaceful protests led to change. I learned this through the massive advances made by the civil rights movement in the decade before my birth. I knew racism still existed, because I grew up a few miles from the national HQ of the…