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 …
Unfortunately, there aren’t enough things in the world that are nicely cut-and-dried and you can simply slap a simple “yes/no” or “good/evil” on it. I feel pretty confident saying “Being a Nazi is just wrong period” but you don’t get too many of those in life. And that’s where I am with the whole “cancel …