I’m excited to announce that I’ve moved the blog to a new platform. We’re on Substack now. It’s been a good run on WordPress for the old domain. But life is about […]
We’re Moving
The Limit
I learned the joy of data and statistics from sports. I have an early memory of arguing with my mom’s boyfriend when he would make his claim that running the football was […]
The Obligation of Hope
People don’t talk about America the way I do very much anymore. The smart pessimists call me naïve. They tell me I ignore the truths about our past. Or that I’m the […]
Radicals
No group has posed a bigger threat to the institutions I swore to defend than the current domestic insurgency that reared its ugly head January 6th. The veterans that took part in it and I are not on the same team any more.
Thoughts on Deplatforming
This week President Trump’s Twitter account was suspended. So I thought I’d share some thoughts. I’ll forgo the details of the events. Chances are if you’re reading this, you know them already. So, […]
The Sixth of January
I’m going to start where I began this whole journey. I grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the time when Donald Trump owned half of the city’s casinos. And what […]
Promises to Keep
There was a bookshelf in the house I grew up in that never changed. It was like the ruins of an ancient civilization left behind for those after the fall to decipher. […]
Questions for January 21st
Three thoughts keep converging on me when I think about what awaits American politics in the near future to be described simply as after January 20, 2021. They don’t provide answers but […]
The Rules of the Game
It’s 4thdown and 20 and the Home Team Coach decides to go for it. He’s a new Coach who’s never coached in the pros. But he got the job because he was […]
Art, Creation and the Generative Phenomenon of Coming Home From War
Sometime in the Fall of 2001, a tired U.S. Navy ship pulled into the port of Cairns, Australia. Her sides were rusted and her engineering plant was tired and down to her […]