Fear, hate, revenge, ignorance, pettiness, apathy and many other common human foibles drive much of the noise-making in modern American public affairs. Ever-quickening authoritarian goose-steps in recent decades, the most recent decade in particular, have morphed into decisive leaps towards outright...
In the weeks leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as we drove back to our Goose Hollow neighborhood, my daughter, her then boyfriend (now husband), and I attempted to come to a coherent understanding of where the candidates stood. We had just eaten supper...