Last night I watched redtail hawks come and go, and mourned.Our cottonwoods — where the hawks have raised a family — almost met their end a couple of months ago. One afternoon I saw men in hardhats…Jul 3, 2024Jul 3, 2024
Party Like It’s 1876Today is Count Day. And Marsha Blackburn wants to party like it’s 1876.Jan 6, 2021Jan 6, 2021
“The Crown’s” Legitimizing “Truth”In 1981, televisions worldwide transmitted a tableau of a man and a woman standing before a crowd to announce their engagement. She’s in a…Nov 27, 2020Nov 27, 2020
Talking About Civil LibertiesThe stay-at-home protests in Michigan this week blew bugles all along our partisan trenchlines this week. After the call-to-arms at the…Apr 18, 2020Apr 18, 2020
Let’s Make a DealI write in a state of profound weightlessness. The Covid-19 crisis has sent the wealthy of the industrialized world like mice into their…Apr 8, 2020Apr 8, 2020
Oil Change in the Time of CoronavirusAcross sudden fissures of social distance, how do we speak to each other?Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Impeachment as SoulcraftWell, it’s all over but the shouting. And it turns out that shouting is all it would ever be.Feb 2, 2020Feb 2, 2020
Bananas of WarAs the world sighs with relief that Iran’s counterstrike against Iraq’s Ain Al-Asad air force base appears to have ended the most recent…Jan 19, 2020Jan 19, 2020
Calmly on to ArmageddonWith the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, people are anxiously debating whether the situation will spin out of control…Jan 6, 2020Jan 6, 2020
