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Injustice to first Thanksgiving

We’ve all heard the story of the first Thanksgiving. The plight of pilgrims traveling from England to establish Plymouth colony in the new world. How they survived a brutal winter and then celebrated a successful harvest with Native Americans the following fall in what would become known as the first Thanksgiving. Holding this feel-good story up while failing to thoroughly teach the Native perspective only serves to overshadow the ongoing massacre of Native American people in the colonization of the Americas and establishment of this country. No, I’m not suggesting we do away with ...

The Zen of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the most American of holidays. But there is something almost un-American about it. It is a day opposed to striving, to getting more. We stop adding up the numbers on the scorecard of life. We freeze in place and give thanks for whatever is there. The Wall Street Journal once featured sob stories about failed dot-com entrepreneurs. People still in their 20s and 30s spoke painfully of their disappointments. They had planned to make many millions on internet startups, but the dot-com market crashed before they could pile up the first seven figures. One 29-year-old had ...

More contradictory information

Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo has joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in opposition to fluoride in the water supply. Dr. Ladapo cites controversial studies that claim the additive poses a risk to developing brains. I shall resist the temptation to draw a link between such studies and our politicians. The Washington Post reports: “Despite the identification of a new chemical and the presence of an old chemical, fluoride, in drinking water, experts said most tap water is safe to drink.” “Experts” have been on both sides of so many things over the years it is difficult to ...

Don’t pardon Hunter Biden

While all eyes are on Mar-a-Lago and the goons Trump is nominating to besmirch high government offices, there is another potential threat looming to the rule of law, and it comes not from MAGAworld but from the sitting president. I’m referring to the possibility that President Joe Biden might pardon his son Hunter Biden. Ana Navarro, a panelist on “The View,” urged the president to do it, saying, “Joe, since they’re talking smack about you anyways, you know what? Maybe pardon Hunter. Pardon Hunter because we, basically America, just pardoned a criminal who was convicted of ...

AG pick is bottom of the barrel

In just two weeks since being elected to return to the White House, Donald Trump has given those accused of suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome ample cause to feel, well, decidedly un-deranged. Regrettably if unsurprisingly, it’s shaping up to be an epic time for “I-told-you-so’s,” as the president-elect’s selections of those who will control the U.S. government triggered not just alarm bells but air raid sirens. Trump’s choice of now former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general of the United States, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, would be a joke were ...

Age of whispered conversations

We live in an age of whispered conversations. There are aspects of American life that everyone, or nearly everyone, knows are absurd but is too afraid to speak out against and feels powerless to reverse. It used to be said that if someone looked over his shoulder, he was about to tell an insensitive joke. Now people are worried about being overheard making what should be commonsensical observations. Below are the kinds of conversations that are happening all the time. The maternity-ward nurse in a low voice: “Where the form says ‘birthing parent,’ that means mother. They ...