Accountability is important, but it must be balanced with compassionate understanding.

“Network” is getting the Criterion treatment. 💕 @criterion.bsky.social @ditzkoff.bsky.social www.criterion.com/films/34869-...

When dialectic is replaced with rhetoric (ahem!), political deliberation becomes a simulation and is not real thereby obscuring truth.

Yet another astonishing thing to just sit with for a moment.

In this inaugural episode, Kevin Shively and Dean Bagley explore their differing perspectives on politics, truth, and the importance of dialogue. They discuss their backgrounds, the evolution of their political awareness, and the influence of media on their views.

A new podcast launches tomorrow called Asynchrony exploring the nature of division in America. Here's a short preview clip. asynchronypodcast.com

The most important thing to be in life is genuine, because truth has to be the foundation.

Friday is for poetry. How many people do we really know?

This pretty much nails it for me.

In the words of Rudyard Kipling, "For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

Fridays are for poetry. Even in winter, there is no shortage of hot air.

Are we headed back to 19th century-style colonialism in place of a rules-based international order?

When we rush to judgement, we risk missing most of the facts.

Retreating to our own corners is easier, but it never actually solves anything.

Happy New Year!

Seeing the world through the eyes of a support technician.

It strikes me that when one says mankind was created in the image of god, that must not mean mankind exclusively. #itstrikesme

Friday’s are for poetry. What legacy to we choose to leave behind?

Fridays are for poetry. Today's is in a melancholy mood.

The problem with social media becoming people’s primary source for news is that its algorithms are simply not set up to perform the critical task of serving as the fourth estate!

Fridays are for poetry, and I thought of you.

Here is one effective way to prevent social media from destroying our democracy. The problem is, it will likely lead to less engagement, so they may not deploy it unless they have to. Perhaps they should. I have a new article talking about this next week, but check this out in the meantime.

Goodbye to my dear Uncle Bob. We will miss you.

I really wish I could be in Montreal this weekend to see the show. It's going to be another great one.

Friday’s are for poetry. Thinking of love, loss, and family.

Thinking about family memories on this day of Thanskgiving and wishing all of you a merry one!

Fridays are for poetry. I'm late with this one, but better late than never.

All too often we are too busy focusing on the issues at hand and don’t realize we are not standing on the same common ground.

Two-thirds of Americans agree that the rich should be taxed more, including 51% of Republicans, yet economists are stubbornly holding on to the refuted belief that it would harm the economy despite clear evidence to the contrary.

Fridays are for poetry. A central part of growth is being open to change.

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women... have rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron." Oligarch Peter Thiel, CEO of Palantir

American Dream update: average age of first-time home buyers is now 40. The wealth lost by the average person between buying at 30 and buying at 40 is $150,000. That money is instead redistributed to the upper classes.

Does it really have to be an either/or proposition?

Truth.

Not a good look internationally for the US!

The more impatient we are, the less we are willing to hold on to our ideals.

Can you imagine how much we could do for Americans if we taxed billionaires at the top 37% tax rate we tax lottery winners instead of the 23.8% rate they actually pay?

Fridays are for poetry. Music opens a portal to the truth of the universe.

Capitalism and democracy need not be at odds. We just have to agree on a framework that achieves true freedom for both.

I am currently in Portland, OR, and this is spot on! "From the moment the armed services violently engage their first civilians, their prestige will be gone forever, and service members will be destroying the Republic they are sworn to serve." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Millions of Americans (about 12.5%, in fact) are going hungry, and he hosts a Great Gatsby Party. He obviously didn't read the book! This is nothing less than a giant middle finger to the American working poor! You just can't even begin to make this stuff up!

Fridays are for poetry: This one is for Rick Because he asked me for it Here is his haiku

We can all be fooled into reacting the way a demagogue wants us to, no matter what side we are on.

At The Westport Suzuki Music School about to hear a lovely concert steeped in high-end jazz by Julian Shively and Emma McDonald @shiveman.bsky.social

Friday is for poetry.

Control of what people know or think they know is at the heart of political power.

Democracy thrives in the space between me and we.

America does not have a hereditory monarch. That is what it's based on. It's a shame we constantly have to remind people of this.

WE the PEOPLE in order to form a more perfect UNION, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the COMMON defense, promote the GENERAL welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to OURselves and OUR posterity. This was never meant to be a country of the few or the one.

I was a bit lazy this week. I only published one article and missed my Friday morning poem. To make up for it, I offer this as recompense.