Thoughts
The Nunes Memo released in its current form, is one of history’s greatest misdirections. It’s all face value, and it’s a pretty uninteresting face. It’s politics, gamesmanship, and not governance.
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I can't shake this thought that for as much as we talk about racism, there’s a big blind spot that has never felt quite as opaque as it does now: we may be saying the word “racist” quite often, but we’re not talking about racism itself nearly enough.
Read MoreMuch has been made of the actions of YouTuber Logan Paul — who posted graphic vlog footage of a dead body hanging in a Japanese suicide forest. The part that concerns me the most about Logan Paul is that he was living his life on camera in the first place.
Read MoreI wonder what he imagines in the darkness, if he even imagines anything at all. His brain doesn’t work like yours or mine; and through everything I’ve never once considered it to be a colorful place. What a cruel joke it would be for a brain, stunted at each mental and biological response we take for granted, to dream in color.
Read MoreSo many of the women in my life have confided “me too” to me for years. They’ve been telling it to you, too. Or they’ve been trying to say it. Or they’ve been scared to say it. Or they’ve been exhausted to say it. There’s room for all of us to grow.
Read MoreWe are losing the thread. We are being conditioned to lose the thread. We must be more responsible in how we obtain and process our news. We need to stop regurgitating snippets of raw, unprocessed data collected in social media headlines and short TV news segments wedged between commercials for erection pills and eczema creams that cause side effects worse than eczema, and instead synthesize that data into information. We need to stop letting media outlets control the way we think, because while we do have a right to an opinion, that right should only be exercised through the responsible processing of well-sourced, fully-ingested information.
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