Going forward, mainstream (aka real) media interviews with Republican officials need to start with a simple screening question: Is Joe Biden the legitimate President, yes or no?

No → interview…

Love and hate… can they peacefully co-exist? Hate is cancer that eats away at your everything. Stealing from you. Love is growth finding connections for you: you and others; you…

A Facebook friend posted a remarkably whiny, bad-faith, clueless opinion piece from the Tennessee Star:

“…the rest of the cultural Left can’t begin to fathom, that there will be consequences to persecuting Donald Trump and attempting to make pariahs out of 75 million Americans, and it won’t be long until those consequences manifest themselves violently.”

It shouldn’t take reminding that Donald Trump INCITED and then CHEERED ON as a crowd of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol on the day the Electoral College certification was taking place. …

Finally got around the binging The Mandalorian. It was enjoyable, did an excellent job of creating a stylish version of the Star Wars universe, is better than almost all the movies. but in all honesty the YouTube fan-reaction videos to episodes were ultimately more interesting.

I think part of the problem is the mythology of the universe so captured imaginations that consistent problems with things such as clunky dialogue and wooden acting were too often overlooked. That remains true even after George Lucas’ efforts got so bad he had to go. There was certainly some of that in the Mandalorian…

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ recent essay, “Donald Trump Is Out. Are We Ready to Talk About How He Got In?” is an update to his 2017 piece, “The First White President.” These are long pieces, but well worth the read. As he points out, Trump won every category of white people in the 2016 election: male, female; young, old; all economic levels; all geographic areas. Coates also notes that Trump’s share of the white vote was similar to that of Romney in 2012. This explodes the myth that Trump’s rise was the result of a resentful white working class angry at elite…

I’m going to say again that I think Joe Biden was the only Democratic candidate who could have beaten Trump. And one day into his administration, he was absolutely the right choice for this moment. Will he be “perfect”? No. But, as they say, he is decent, sober, serious, and important to add after the insanity of the last four years — sane.

I genuinely believe the American experiment with democracy would not have survived a second-term, unfettered, and completely unaccountable Donald Trump.

Something that has to be mentioned, and this is a national conversation to be had; Joe…