The President, Donald Trump, proclaimed this day, January 16, 2018, to be Religious Freedom Day. Religious Freedom Day is, in the president’s words, a day when we… … celebrate the many faiths that make up our country, and we commemorate the 232nd…
I just received an email from my Michigan senator, Debbie Stabenow, with an ominous subject line: BREAKING: Great Lakes Funding ELIMINATED I know Donald Trump has been threatening Great Lakes funding as part of his irrational drive to find money to build…
Without a doubt, the smartest thing I’ve ever done, I did thirty-five years ago today: Thirty-five years ago, I married my best friend on a perfect Saturday afternoon in Ann Arbor. We were pretty young and didn’t know exactly what…
A friend of mine just pointed me to the #Trumpectomy hashtag on Twitter. The meaning, of course, is a procedure to remove Donald Trump from office. But seeing that term triggered, in a serendipitous flash, a spontaneous understanding of a…
President-elect, Donald Trump, our Twitter-wielding intimidator-in-chief, has turned his ironic rage toward the cast of the Hamilton musical. Last night, vice-president-elect, Mike Pense, attended the musical Hamilton. After the performance, actor Brandon Victor Dixon (who plays the character, Aaron Burr), recognized Mr.…
Suggest to a Gary Johnson supporter, or a Jill Stein supporter, that voting for their preferred candidate is a wasted vote and you’re likely to get an ear full. But whether or not such a vote is actually a wasted…