Summertime in Gilead: Will We Reclaim Our Opportunities?

For the first time in my entire life, July 4th was not a day of celebration for me. Over the past couple of weeks,  a combination of the news and real life has battered my natural optimistic nature into what I hope is a temporary state of cynical anger. Between Texas,...
Why I’m Voting For Obama (Cynematic)

Why I’m Voting For Obama (Cynematic)

I think we’re all a little war-weary. Let me explain. What launched me into blogging was the buildup to the Iraq war in 2003. A decade later, that’s all my child, born in late 2003, has ever known. That is unacceptable. Except it’s known, and not...