In less than 24 hours as I write this, the polls will open up in Portland, Maine, and to say that I am nervous would be an understatement. I entered 2021 with two ideas kicking around in my head. One was to seriously consider running for a seat on our local Charter Commission. The other …
TODAY’S EPISODE: Where’s the good news about race and Black people and stuff? It’s too dark, man. It’s too grim. Why can’t you be more positive? Now, I don’t know how many people think this when they look at news about race and racism and Black people and Indigenous rights and all the rest, …
The “benefit of the doubt” has always puzzled me. I can’t tell if it’s real. Is it a kindness we grant one another in absence of evidence? Or is it some kind of ceremonial gesture masking an obvious and opposing truth? Is it something we do out of generosity or cowardice? There is a clear …