Tag: politics

• Welcome to America (actually) (September 18, 2025)

  At least a couple people in my friend-sphere are today becoming or have recently become U.S. citizens.

• Liberals, liberals, liberals! (September 18, 2025)

  I try not to make a habit of peeking at the trending-posts tab of my Mastodon server, but when I do it anyway, I often find myself thinking of the preceding 2005 installment of “Anthropomorphic Republican Talking Duck”, a “Mallard Fillmore” parody by Adam Jameson.

• MLK 2021 (January 18, 2021)

  The rise in Black American voices, year by year, shifts and widens the message-legacy of MLK. I think it helps me understand the historical Jesus a little better.

• Responding to bad-faith questions (November 12, 2020)

  Sometimes there really is just one suitable reply.

• How I’ll empathize with Trump supporters (November 7, 2020)

  It depends on which kind you mean.