Our nation was founded on the concept that no one person should hold absolute power...that no one individual is entitled to rule us all. But given the erosion of our institutional safeguards, the Deep State created by Project 2025, and the disastrous Supreme Court ruling in DJT Vs. The United States, this moment is ripe …
#HANDSOFF Raleigh
Many faces from many walks of life, all with one voice sending a clear message in Raleigh this #HANDSOFF day: We will not be silent and we will not be idle in these troubling times. "This is a moral moment. It is not left or right, it is right or wrong."Cory Booker
Bless their Hearts–How to Slay a Facebook Troll: PART 1
Audio Version Where We Lay Our SceneA couple years back, my good friend Stephanie Sikes and I were having a hearty laugh about some of the foolishness we were seeing from our mutual Facebook friends…and I half-jokingly told Stephanie that I was writing a manual on How to Slay a Facebook Troll so other people …
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The Vacuum of Privilege: The Allegory of the Knee
AUDIO VERSION Unless you are living under a rock or are caught in a vacuum, the death of George Floyd should be on your radar right now...If you haven’t heard of him, you can lift that rock here, but be warned what you will see is one of the most abjectly cruel and dehumanizing events …
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The Privilege of Happy Mothers’ Day
Audio Version So Friday was my son Eli’s 10th birthday, and it marked a milestone of my wife and I’s efforts so far to raise our son to be a decent human being...to be a person who values family, friendship, fellowship, and fairness. Thus far, I’d say we’ve done a decent job, as Eli has …
Cult 4 V–A Rambling Tribute to the Gambler, Kenny Rogers
Audio Version I got a call yesterday morning from Eli…He had spent the night with his grandparents, and so when I saw my mom on caller ID, I figured it was her checking in to coordinate the day.As I suspect for everyone else, a week of battening down the hatches left my wife, my children …
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The Function of Unfollow
Audiobook Version For what it's worth, I finally started using Facebook’s "unfollow" feature for the first time. I was inspired by a dear friend and muse, Elic Senter, whose recent missive regarding his frustration with Zuckerberg’s sandbox catalyzed my own process of introspection. Elic shared a genuine reflection in regard to his Facebook ontology, as …
The Parable of the Orange Fish
Audiobook Version Recently there lived a man who loved to fish, and he was considered great at the art. Each day he would wake and fish, as fishing could fill a man’s belly and his pockets. Among his people, only he knew how to catch the best tasting fish, so his neighbors would pay him …
Sideways 45
Audio Version Sideways. That’s how to crawl through a window. That’s how I have to talk to my Grandma. That’s how you change hearts and minds. Out the gate, I understand none of that makes any sense--Non Sequitur for the fancy among you. But all of you should have learned, and I teach, that …
Sideways 45 