March 2021

Frankly, the tired anecdote of people in orange vests leaning against shovels and bridges to nowhere is not supported by data. The more we complain about earmarks, the faster our local infrastructure crumbles.

As measured by our personally-held national aspirations, Americans are not remotely as divided as we may be led to believe. It’s time to see Americans as we are – in full nuance – not as how public opinion narratives caricature us to be.

The admissions process has always been a one-sided affair with colleges holding more of the cards; this year it promises to be even worse with the specter of the pandemic. So, maybe this is the perfect time to rethink some of the traditions of admissions.  

We knew we needed to push this through the right channels and see if somehow, someway, medical cannabis could make it into the Veterans Health Administration. Could this be a viable alternative to opiates that are being prescribed? How could we even make the case?

Whatever your opinion of Biden, know this: He has empathy. Biden, who has a deep history of personal loss and grief, called upon his own hardships to provide a much-needed salve to a nation plagued by unrelenting loss.

Left unchecked, the governments of the world could essentially and inadvertently kill the open Internet by simply making it unpalatable to operate in their countries from another country.

I wonder what happened to the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Reagan, Dirksen, McCain, and the Bushes. Today’s GOP is a shadow of its former self and continues to cleave to an orthodoxy of simple blind loyalty to one man and to his intractable base.

Some members of the GOP Doctors Caucus say the US Covid-19 vaccine strategy should emulate the UK, where the priority is to get administer as many first shots as possible before giving out the second dose.

The right to free speech does not ‘cancel’ our societal right to truth. We have all lost family members and or friends due to what I would call mostly non-violent radicalization from social media misinformation. The truth is their beliefs and actions are a form of self-cancelation and only they can undo this form of self-harm.