politics
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I have not been as affected by a movie in years as I was by Moonlight. How it performs at the Oscars won’t change the truth that it is not only a great film, it’s transcendent. Zach Hoag’s review is top shelf and far more thoughtful than the review I never wrote. Except this one simple…
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I DON’T WANT YOUR BINARY WORLD I don’t want your binary world. You can keep it. It’s no gift, really. A curse actually. Long distance arguments turn into brief skirmishes in a decades-spanning war. My every little expression dissected, deconstructed, injected, transformed into a wild assumption making me look like an ass and you and…
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BALANCED There is no balance between rich and poor, slave and free. No necessary condition of have and have not. Victims don’t need to forgive their abusers before justice reins in the terror. Our lives are out of balance. If our ecosystem was balanced, it was before we burned fossil fuels. Before we salted our…
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A COUNTRY OF FOUR-YEAR-OLDS I sometimes feelthat the only wayto understand my countryis to be a parent. I live in a landfor which the response“because I can”is a valid argumentand “because I said so”works just as wellto dissuade; where freedom is moreimportant than community,until we get hurt. Today my son is crankybecause his MeeMee and…
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It’s a simple question. Well, at least many of us treat it like it is. Not at all, we say. Separation of Church and State. A lot, we say. We are called to change the world. How we answer the question often reveals not only what we think of church and politics, but where we…