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What I Got Wrong in 2016

The outcome of the last presidential election required me to undergo some serious self-reflection. “Keller wakes up the morning after the election thinking that he doesn’t know his own country anymore.   We’re not, he thinks, who I thought we were.  Not who I thought we were at all . .…

Hate Trumped Love: Why, How, And What Now?

Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States That vomit-inducing sentence is particularly awful for me to write, because of the crow I’ve had to eat recently (from myself mostly, because I punish myself more than anyone else can for failure). I wrote in December 2015, in the…

The American Gun Debate: How Can We Curb Gun Violence?

Last New Year’s Eve, in Florida, a mother shot her daughter to death because she thought she was an intruder. In California, a father killed his son’s bedridden mother, girlfriend and friend before the son wrestled the gun away and killed him. And just Tuesday morning, an Ohio father shot…

Dear Republicans, You Need to Evolve, Part 2

(UPDATED: December 8, 2015) Dear Grand Old Party, Hey. It’s me. Listen, I know we don’t get along. At all. The animosity has gotten out of hand at times but who hasn’t forced their roommate to invade another guy’s house based on lies or allowed the bank to short our mortgage knowing…

Dear Republicans: Not To Trample On Your Religious Liberty, But You Got to Evolve

The best view death I’ve ever read was from Steve Jobs, a former hippie who became one of the biggest corporate icons of the modern era. In other words, he was a Frankenstein monster conservatives and liberals still love to debate. He gave a commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, an…