Dear President Trump, Happy Transgender Awareness Month! All VA employees got an email about it last week, which to me signals that you can try to erase transgender people, but it’s not going to work. It’s not going to work at the VA and it’s not going to work at the coffee shop down the … Continue reading Tayari Jones and the myth of the moral middle
Racism
Crying sort of day
Dear President Trump, The first time I cried yesterday was when I was perusing the new Sunset magazine celebrating their 120th anniversary. On the sides of most the pages are little pictures and snippets of significant Western events over the years. I was doing fine until I got to the picture of a four- or … Continue reading Crying sort of day
A tiny weight on the side of goodness
Dear President Trump, Just before I learned about the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh this morning I read in either the WP or the HP how even with a suspect in custody who clearly supports you, there were still people on the far right yesterday claiming the Democrats or Jews … Continue reading A tiny weight on the side of goodness
POTUS fantasy cruises
Dear President Trump, Yesterday Mikhail Gorbachev said “Not the work of a great mind” in response to your stated plan to do away with the nuclear arms treaty we’ve had with Russia since 1987. I think this about sums things up. We could recycle this handy phrase and use it to characterize most everything you … Continue reading POTUS fantasy cruises
Poisoning the body politic
Dear President Trump, Yesterday we went to the UW/University of Colorado homecoming game with our football fan friend from Texas. It was actually the first football game I’ve ever watched from beginning to end. We made it through half of the UW/Oregon game last year before the snow and cold temperature got to be too … Continue reading Poisoning the body politic
Not a wise move
Dear President Trump, I used to work for someone who studied different types of intelligence and depending on the website, the “real” number of types is apparently seven, eight, or nine. I thought looking at his model might help me understand how Elizabeth Warren could have created such an incredibly smart and well-developed nationwide political … Continue reading Not a wise move
May we not allow you to divide us into enemy factions
Dear President Trump, Our little dog Buddy routinely gets confused when confronted with his own reflection, whether in a mirror or in a window at night. He’ll catch sight of himself and the image will startle him, he’ll do a double take and start kicking his back feet and barking. No amount of reassurance that … Continue reading May we not allow you to divide us into enemy factions
An earnest listen now and again is not enough
Dear President Trump, Victoria Bissell Brown. Dr. Victoria Bissell Brown, actually. Not a name you’ve probably ever heard before. Not a name I’d ever heard before yesterday, but I’m going to do my best to remember it. Dr. Brown is a retired history professor from Grinnell College and she wrote the mother of all op-eds … Continue reading An earnest listen now and again is not enough
When you go low
Dear President Trump, Surely I’ve asked you this before, but how much of what you say do you actually believe? We know you tell multiple falsehoods a day, but it’s still not clear how much of what you say you’re saying to consciously manipulate your base and how much of what you say you’d tell … Continue reading When you go low
No question who’s on top of the heap
Dear President Trump, All my life I’ve had trouble with people’s names and when someone has a last name that is traditionally a first name, things get even worse for me. This is especially true when the person is male since most last names are male-based and thus boys or men can end up with … Continue reading No question who’s on top of the heap
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