A candid interchange between the President and an aide while visiting the site of the devastating Camp Fire in Northern California: POTUS: “Wow…the whole town of Pleasure, burned to shit.” Aide: “It’s Paradise, Mr. President.” POTUS: “Are you blind? It’s Hell! Coulda all been avoided if they’d only raked the forest,…
Do you remember hating Civics Class? I don’t recall much about elementary school, but I do have a visceral imprint of the droll, time-away-from-more-interesting-stuff necessity of learning about how government works and what it meant to be a citizen. Yet, even though I was not particularly engaged, my presence in…
OK, some good stuff happened on Tuesday. Perhaps we can get back to giving a shit about doing what’s right rather than what’s politically achievable. I’m not very hopeful, but we’ll see. However…watching the fractious state of our union play out at the polls was not soothing or satisfying or…
We like being scared. I’m sure there’s a detailed psychological explanation for that particular phenomenon, but it’s a thing, right? Peek-a-booing infants, eliciting gales of giggly startled delight by making our siblings and childhood friends jump out of their skins, subjecting ourselves to houses of horror, death-drop-three-loop-double-corkscrew thrill rides and…