What we see now in America is what happens when we fail to make generous investments in the next generation — I remember middle-class 1970s America. We were so optimistic then. And we had it so good, too. We made the best cars, TVs, and we had the best schools. The news was about bussing kids, not about school shootings. Our politics still talked about compromise. Our future was not decided…

Nobody thinks of you the way you do. — Long ago, I was just starting a new job. I was new to customer service and managing support requests. I was new to talking with customers on the phone as a front line employee. I was new to the paperless office. I can recall making what I thought was a…

…to people who can’t or won’t change anyway. — There was a time in my much younger life when I hated one or more persons. I think at one point, it was a sort of searing, visceral hate. There were things that I dreamed about doing to the other person, but could never bring myself to do him or…

Every headline about the war makes me wonder what they’re not telling us. — For weeks I thought it was all just posturing. For weeks, I figured that Biden would work out some sort of diplomatic solution. I could not help but think of every headline about the buildup of troops at the border of Ukraine as a way of making us feel more…

Most Americans don’t wake up on election day to vote for a very inefficient genocide. — We are two months into something called “a war”, that is situated in Israel and Gaza. More astute observers refer to the pummeling that Israel is delivering to Gaza, as a genocide. Israel is committing genocide on a class of people that it deems subordinate to Israel. Those “subordinate people”…

Israel has killed thousands of kids in two months and a grandstanding member of Congress would rather challenge the presidents of Ivy League institutions than address mass murder. — So I have a problem with the indiscriminate killing of thousands of kids in Gaza. I have a problem with war, period. But this year, this month, kids in Gaza are still dying at the hands of the Israeli Defense Force. What are they doing in Congress?

Evil is not an inherent attribute of humanity, but confusion is. — Not long ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu framed the struggle between Israel and Palestine as a battle between “Good” and “Evil”. He didn’t use those exact terms, but we can infer from his choice of words, that he meant to say that the other side was evil. Here are…

Apparently, Israel lacks a gene for freedom of speech. — One of the side stories that isn’t getting much press is this: Israel has an appetite for killing journalists. A trend has come to light since the start of the war in Israel and Palestine. National Public Radio which is what I like to call, “resentment radio”, ran a story…

Political discourse is not as simple as condemning someone for their views. — I’m really sick of condemnation politics. Biden condemns Hamas. He condemns Russia for the invasion of Ukraine. American policymakers want other countries to condemn Hamas and Russia. I see people on social media condemning each other for being, “wrong”, “anti-semitic”, a “closet terrorist”, or a “Putin poodle”. I have never…