A Supposedly Fun Thing That Was Actually Pretty OK
I never thought I was a cruise person. And I may still not be. But a celiac disease-themed cruise opened my eyes.
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The Second Bill of Rights
It’s not radical to want a society that provides decent standards for everyone.
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We are the bad guys
Americans need to let go of the fiction that we, as a nation, are always in the right.
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Life During Forever Wartime
I was taught that war was bad, but sometimes necessary, and eventually it ended. The latter two concepts seem to no longer apply.
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Ranking Every Year of Your Life
I was born in 1973. Here’s how that’s gone so far.
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Undercover as an Amazon driver
I once worked for UPS for about two hours. In even that short amount of time, I learned what I need to know what’s wrong with Amazon.
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The Columbus, Ohio Subway System
My city has chosen to build more and more roads, but one time it had trains and streetcars. In the mind of at least one man, it could one day have a subway. If only our leaders had such an imagination.
Read morePresidential crimes? Yawn. Where’s the “pizzazz?”
Public impeachment hearings began yesterday and the first two witnesses confirmed that the President of the United States of America used his foreign policy powers to extort personal political favors. What’s more, they testified to a previously unknown phone call in which the president personally attempted to direct the extortion scheme. That’s corrupt. It’s an […]
Read moreOpioids in Baseball: “More people are going to die if this doesn’t get fixed”
On July 1, Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs asphyxiated while under the influence of fentanyl, oxycodone, and alcohol in his Texas hotel room. Today, over at NBC Sports, I spoke with former players and front office employees who are concerned that baseball has a bigger opioid problem than most people think.
Read moreAn Unprecedented Abuse of Power
In the space of one news conference today, the president (a) announced he’d be using the power of his presidency to enrich him personally by holding the G7 summit at his own hotel; and (b) his Chief of Staff explicitly admitted that the president used his powers as Commander in Chief to extort a foreign […]
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