Roseanne Connor is willing to threaten an entire class of elementary-school children, in public, for Mark’s sake, yet she voted for, and still defends, a politician who would invalidate Mark as a full American citizen. On Tuesday, March 27, the reboot of the ABC television sitcom Roseanne debuted to 18.2 million viewers. The original show (1988-1997) […]
It’s hard out there for a right-wing snowflake looking for love. Pity the single Republican in D.C. Not only do many of them have to work for a man who starts trade (though hopefully not nuclear) wars because he didn’t get enough sleep, but as a few GOPers anonymously complained to the Washingtonian, they can’t […]
It’s a good idea to share a family meal with such relatives, but don’t try to understand them. If there are two things you can count on at this time of year, it is that 1) you will get irritated by (and perhaps even shout at) a relative; and 2) you will read articles about […]
When family members declared and continue to declare their ardent belief in Trump, they turn their backs on the essential rights of my children. That feels like betrayal. The news was ablaze yesterday with the news of the rapper Eminem drawing a line in the sand through his freestyle video at the BET awards, insisting […]
When each side believes themselves to be “the good guys” and all attempts at communication only deepen the chasm of misunderstanding, what is our responsibility to one another? For half a year, the mind of my 3-year-old son has been consumed by superheroes. He prefers to dress in costume, existing as Iron Man, Spider-Man, or […]
The more I asked questions and argued on Facebook, the more I came to realize that everything they told me about why they were voting for Donald Trump was just coded words for their inherent racism, misogyny, and in the case of women, their internalized misogyny. I live in Michigan, where I was born and […]
