Quaran-Takes: Just dropping in to share some thoughts on what condition our condition is in—relative to the pandemic
Kenny Rogers, who passed away on March 20 of this year, had a music chart hit in 1968 with a song entitled “Just Dropped In …
Quaran-takes: Just dropping in to share some thoughts on what condition our condition is in—relative to the pandemic
Kenny Rogers, who passed away on March 20 of this year, had a music chart hit in 1968 with a song entitled “Just Dropped In …
The 2020 Federal Census matters: Be counted, and help your community too
As the result of my work as a student assistant and as an intern for an outreach effort by our neighbor State of California to …
Stay “woke”, engaged to protect our American democracy from creeping authoritarianism
There are growing concerns that in our current national political environment, American democracy is under assault. This can be seen in any scan of newspaper …
Re-Uniting the Divided Tribes of Modern America
One of the most familiar mottos of the United States of America is E Pluribus Unum, a Latin phrase which translates to “out of many, …
Perspectives from a nuclear strike false alarm
On January 13, which was a beautiful, sunny, Saturday morning on the Big Island of Hawaii, I was in my room at the Hilton Hotel …
Partisanship shouldn’t be a motivator in sexual assault debates
In what some have called our post-truth culture, what matters most is which group one is with — or which “side” one is on. Group …
In challenging “fake” news and “alternative, false” narratives, “real” facts matter
Misinformation seems to be everywhere. The White House has been putting out false claims about the effectiveness and extent of the federal government response in …