As we move closer to the November presidential election Donald Trump’s comments are becoming more and more outlandish, irrational, and dangerous. I therefore am calling on all rational people to do everything they can to stop this demagogue in his tracks.
The shooting in Orlando has exposed a deep and underlying ugliness in America, one that is defined by partisanship, hatred, racism, and intolerance. Unfortunately, no political party has a monopoly on purity, and in this post I explore how the horrible massacre of 50 people in a night club speaks to a much bigger problem. I’m too much in shock and sadness to come to any conclusions, so don’t expect that from this post. View it instead as a rambling meditation on the present state of affairs.
One of the most pernicious attitudes about the nature of political leadership is that running a city, state, or even the whole nation is akin to being the CEO of a company, an attitude shared not only by free market-obsessed […]
Payday Loans – As Bad As It Gets?… It seems like every day there is another story highlighting the pitfalls of predatory lending, with a particular focus on so-called payday loans–short-term loans of under $500 that carry interest rates of […]
Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican candidate for president of the United States, it’s time to face the elephant in the room: those who voted for him must either be idiots, bigots, or both.
A Cliché Or A Warning? It’s so cliché to compare anything we don’t like to Hitler that such comparisons have become like the proverbial boy crying wolf, which is why the rise of Donald Trump is so disconcerting: the wolf wears […]