I don’t have any interest in starting a political movement. I just want to live life and be left alone as long as I’m peaceful with others. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. If you’re interested in doing the same — and if you want to do it without the shrill and angry confrontations of politics — I hope you’ll join me in a conversation that might lead to better lives for all of us.
My own political evolution is a long and twisting story. I grew up in a generally conservative household, but I was taught to be a political independent. I also learned — from school and from my own reading — to be an intensely patriotic kid. I believed in our political leaders. I believed in the political system. I believed in the morality of this country’s role in the world.
Why do I suffer deep alienation when I fear I’m misunderstood?
People who invoke ‘fairness’ generally just mean, ‘Do things my way — or else’
Todd Akin is just another ideologue who thinks it’s OK to make up facts
Have you finished your tax return? That’s a ‘do-it-yourself mugging’
Is this what happens when you teach children there are no absolutes?
A year later, late-night phone call and suicide threat still echo in me
Police mistakenly attack innocent man while hunting graffiti tagger
Why am I disappointed in others, when my secret sins lay hidden?
Freedom lovers, why do so many of you still blindly trust the GOP?