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 Limit
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. […]
Some Advice if You Must Attend Christmas Eve Services in Person
Government limitations on people’s ability to gather and worship their own faiths in their own ways have led to some of history’s lowest points. And so it’s understandable, even during global pandemic, […]
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 […]