Posted on Oct 15, 2018
Over the past few days, two deeply damaged celebrities have injected themselves into the public discourse (again), pledging their support for another deeply damaged celebrity, who happens to be president of the United States. Kanye West appeared in a truly bizarre meeting with Donald Trump at the White House last week, where he expounded upon alternate universes he exists in, Trump masculine energy, and the super powers MAGA hats...
Posted on Oct 12, 2018
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been feeling completely overwhelmed with the sheer amount of information coming at me from every angle imaginable. Granted, I have just moved house (with a young child this is twice as stressful), but the non-stop scandals coming out of the White House and the devastating climate change report delivered by the UN climate science panel has been wearing on me in more ways...
Posted on Oct 08, 2018
The disgraceful nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court reinforced a notion I have come to understand about America for some time now. Beneath the exterior presented to Americans via the news, America is not a country with two political parties. It is not a country governed by democratic norms either. Without an all out war to preserve the ideals laid out by the Founding Fathers, America as...
Posted on Oct 01, 2018
During “Real Time With Bill Maher” last Friday night, Maher made several references to Lindsey Graham’s sexuality that had many accusing the comedian of homophobia. The first joke was about Graham escaping from the women who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator in the US Senate because, according to Maher, he was “familiar with the back door.” Later during the show, Maher referenced Graham’s sexuality again while discussing...
Posted on Sep 28, 2018
As a gay, Catholic conservative who voted for George W. Bush, loved Barack Obama, and supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, Andrew Sullivan usually does nuance pretty well. His transformation from arch conservative to non-ideological liberal (or small-c conservative, depending on your definition) has been fascinating to watch, and his analysis of US politics really is second to none. After his move away from hard right conservatism, Sullivan became disdainful...
Posted on Sep 26, 2018
I’ve largely written about Jordan Peterson in the Banter Members section and not on the main site to avoid the onslaught of pestering I would no doubt receive from his devoted fans. I do not fear intellectual criticism from his army of hardcore acolytes, but I do value my time and do not wish to spend it arguing with true believers who hang on his every word. For all...
Posted on Sep 21, 2018
If you’ve watched your paycheck diminish, education costs go up, and your health care costs spiral out of control, most rational people would probably think about not voting for Republicans. Why? Because Americans have been subjected to right wing economics for almost four decades now, and with very, very little to show for it. Unfortunately, most self identified Republicans do not seem to be able to grasp this, believing instead that...
Posted on Sep 18, 2018
In what seemed like an effort to present some Trump supporters as normal, concerned Americans interested in the welfare of their country, CNN hosted a Q and A with six women who voted for the president in the last election. CNN’s Alisyn Camerota spoke to them in order to find out how they will be voting in the midterms and asked them how they rated his performance thus far. The...
Posted on Sep 14, 2018
The longer I lived in America and the more I interacted with immigrant communities, the more I began to see the country as it really was, not as I believed it should be. ...
Posted on Sep 07, 2018
The people surrounding Trump have clearly had enough of his limitless toxicity and cannot stomach any more of it. They are forcing a confrontation in a deeply cowardly way, but they are forcing it nevertheless....
