Back when Barack Obama was president, Democrats frustrated with the process to get Senate ratification of judicial appointments decided to do away with the filibuster to get more judges appointed…
Our friend Ben Perez passed away. It was unexpected and we don’t have medical report, but even if we had more answers, it would still be jarring. Ben was a…
There’s a one hit wonder – with a one-word title – from the 1990s by a woman named Meredith Brooks that starts, “I hate the world today.” Some days that…
Some weeks are odder than others. Two Thursdays ago, I was sitting on a hospital bed in the pre-surgical prep area at AHN Wexford about to go in to have…
In most areas of life, we don’t use the term rudiment anymore. We use other words and concepts to describe what makes up the rudiments of a particular function, discipline,…
“Why get involved in that?” “Is that really a role for a minister?” “Shouldn’t you just stay in your lane?” These questions come up often in my life. Some of…
Life on Earth was a hard, mostly rural, wearying slog for centuries, and technological advances were made at a stately pace of one or two major changes in any given…