“Everything can be taken from a [wo]man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl It’s hardest to tell the kids. I startled awake at 4 AM the day after the election, and before even looking at my … Continue reading The Sun Always Comes Up
Last night, a poll out of Iowa dropped that has the political world gobsmacked. According to Ann Selzer’s Des Moines Register poll, which is widely considered the gold-standard poll in Iowa, Kamala Harris now leads in Iowa by three points. For reference, Donald Trump won Iowa in 2020 by 8 points. (Just one point off of the … Continue reading The Shock is Shocking: Pundits Don’t Seem to Get This Election
It’s the week of Halloween – a celebratory yet shadowy time, when we’re primed to scare ourselves with animatronic monsters and scary movies and stories about things that go bump in the night. And so on Saturday night, like families all across the country, we went trick-or-treating. Every year, we walk to a nearby neighborhood … Continue reading Fear Factor: Halloween Edition
“It’s almost like she’s a woman, and nothing she does is going to be right.” So said a friend of mine as we vented about the double standard that’s once again gripped media coverage of the election. Just yesterday, CNN’s Jim Acosta pointed to Trump’s openly authoritarian comments and asked – “Has the Vice President not … Continue reading Not Like That: The Criticism of Harris Is the Chorus of Our Lives
Last week, before the vice presidential debate, I was asked by a number of friends whether I would be tuning in. The answer was an emphatic no. It wasn’t because I thought Tim Walz would do a bad job. It wasn’t because I had a sense of foreboding after Biden’s campaign-ending debate. It’s because as … Continue reading Why This Red State Democrat Couldn’t Watch the Vice Presidential Debate
Small Deeds Done 