Warning Label and Obligatory Disclaimers I never write anything with the specific intention to offend or unnerve the reader. But when you are committed to candor, it is bound to happen occasionally. The truth is that sometimes when people’s feelings get hurt, their feelings needed to be hurt in order for them to really hear…

Before We Begin It would be uncool of me if I did not confess up front that this list is not entirely fair. Making a blunt statement that a movie was responsible for the misplaced focus and misdirected energy of an entire nation of people sounds like barbershop and backyard bar-b-que talk more…

THIS FLORIDA FOOLISHNESS IS A CRY FOR HELP When an organization insults my people so publicly and so personally, my typical response is to launch an invective bomb, punctuated by profanity and peppered with vitriol. But this is different. …

(Not) Breaking News: The Supreme Court is an elaborate con job. Even when it is functioning the way people of sound mind and good conscience expect it to function. It is a sham because this institution sells the citizenry the fantasy that it moves and grooves like an impartial, dispassionate…

AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLORATION OF THE INTERSECTION OF SEXUALITY AND POLITICS Looking at the political scene in Florida these days is like running into the hottest of all your ex-girlfriends and gasping at how she has let herself go. She recognizes you before you recognize her, and your reflex as a…

Take a deep breath: this discussion may be disturbing to some readers, but not for the reasons why trigger warnings show up in block white letters on jet-black screens before televised depictions of terrifying rape scenes. This is not a discussion about the unsubstantiated, sensationalized and likely fictionalized account of…

People of sound judgment and good conscience should brace themselves. We’ve got a bitter pill to swallow, and I don’t want us to choke on it. That bitter pill is that Stacy Abrams might actually save us all by losing her bid to be the next governor of Georgia. To…

I fully understand that all antisemitism is fucked up. In every context, it is a rancid reflection of bigotry, stupidity, ignorance or evil. Whether we are grappling with anti-Semitic doctrine or sentiment, it invariably springs forth from one of these four factors or some confusing concoction thereof. Whatever pseudo-historical references…

I love writing and engaging on this platform. It helps keep me sane and chilled out in a world that is crazy and on fire far too much of the time. But life came at me fast and hard from three directions in the last few weeks and sucked the…