<The following are edited comments that I shared with a friend on Facebook who asked conservative friends and family to have a dialog about Trump and his first week.> Let me preface my comments. First, I didn’t support Trump, but I’m an optimist, and like Obama, Clinton and others said following the election, I think […]
Obama: The Great Disappointment
Every American ought to have had high hopes for Barack Obama’s presidency. An unsuccessful administration is bad for the country and, given America’s global status, it’s bad for the world too. That’s not to say you should have supported his entire agenda. Rather, as with Bill Clinton, you might have hoped the realities of governing […]
Open letter to the 1%
<I originally posted the following to Facebook at the beginning of 2013 when the income tax rate for top earners was raised to 39.6%> Jan 3, 2013 Dear Taxpayers Whose Income Taxes Were Raised on 1/1, Most of you are hardworking, successful people. Countless numbers of you have started and run companies that we’ve worked at, […]
Trump v. Obama, or why Clinton campaign supports Citizens United
In the frenzy following the presidential election, little post-mortem attention has been given to how campaign spending was scarcely a factor in Donald Trump’s surprise victory. In fact, Hillary Clinton’s campaign supplies an excellent argument against the need for campaign finance reform following the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United. The Clinton campaign raised more […]
40 best books for toddlers, preschoolers (and their parents)
(I first posted the following three years ago and it remains one of my most popular posts, so I thought I’d share it again. Since we created this list, I’d now add one that our son thoroughly enjoyed: Itsy Mitsy Runs Away, a fun book about a little girl who hates bedtime. It reminds me […]
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