And what a new wave of LGBTQ+ entertainers is showing me today — I am part of humanity’s worst demographic. I’m an older white hetero male. I rejected racism when I was a kid, but the rainbow of my LGBTQ+ sensibilities has been a somewhat stormier arc. Its earliest upward trajectory was assisted more by friends and news stories than my own empathy. …

If Trump becomes president again, your future is bleak — Can you imagine Donald Trump presiding over the AI revolution? How does that make you feel? Full of joy? Or, like me, is it a science fiction nightmare? The idea of Trump occupying the Oval Office during what could be history’s most defining technological moment in communications, one that will…

Texas Republicans are fighting each other, and it ain’t pretty — There’s a good old-fashioned Texas brawl, y’all, that involves pasty white Texans hankerin’ to get the best of each other. The battle has been brewing for some time, but it looks like it’s about to climax in a fight over whether or not to impeach Texas’ ultimate political survivor, Attorney…

America’s descent into madness is led by the cane — At first, I thought the election of an orange celebrity rage machine to the American presidency was triggered by Americans’ occasional lust for political outsiders. It wouldn’t be the first time. For a brief period, Ross Perot was a thing. …

“Please don’t shoot me, Mister, I’m just trying to sell some cookies!” — A weird thing happened the other day. Three girl scouts knocked on my front door. I grabbed my AR-15, opened the door, and there they were in their brown uniforms carrying boxes full of what I assumed was some very dangerous material. I would find out later that I was…

What happens to America if CNN’s public cancer metastasizes? — The story of CNN’s recent town hall with Donald Trump’s adoring audience wasn’t Trump. It was his audience. Watching the small crowd of 250 or so was as close as anyone without a microscope will ever get to watching cancer cells grow and develop in real time. We often hear…

You must interview the interviewer — Elon Musk’s Twitter teardown reminds us all how important job culture is to our sanity. Most of us spend the bulk of our daylight hours working for someone else. When the person we work for is toxic, it affects our psyche and morale. Luckily, there’s a solution. If your job…

The message from “The Diplomat”: Just talk — The Netflix television series The Diplomat has a message for Russia, Ukraine, and America: Just talk. It all happens in a scene that hasn’t gotten much fanfare but for me was the best part of the series: a speech delivered by Rufus Sewell’s character Hal Wyler at Britain’s Chatham House. …

It’s a big fail that only impeachment can fix — Hi Clarence, it’s me, Charles. You don’t know me, but unfortunately, I know you. You’ve been part of a marital tag team wrecking democracy ever since Anita Hill told us all about your friend Long Dong Silver a little more than twenty years ago. Let’s revisit that day, shall we…