by aaron | Mar 28, 2018 | blog, Essays
When you live in a city you’re surrounded by all sorts of strange and wonderful things: buildings and buses and statues and sirens and the most varied and curious panoply of people, including homeless ones. Lots and lots of homeless...
by aaron | Mar 10, 2018 | blog, Essays
“We kind of gave him—‘All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here.'” —Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, on Donald Trump’s affair with porn star Stormy Daniels Jesus and the parable of the Mulligan (The Gospel According to...
by aaron | Mar 9, 2018 | blog, Essays
When I was a kid I loved to play on the teeter-totter during recess. This toy, which is simply a plank resting atop a fulcrum, allowed you to teeter high up into the air and then totter all the way back to earth [1]That’s simply my assessment of the verbs;...
by aaron | Dec 13, 2017 | blog, Essays
“We call it a tipping point. I think, so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip… Where there’s a lot of smoke, there’s got to be some fire somewhere.” —Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, speaking about Roy Moore ↔...
by aaron | Dec 13, 2017 | blog, Essays
The past two essays here have dealt with the nineteen (19) separate allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior by President Trump, where I pondered which of the two parties is telling the truth, and then raised the subsequent question of moral trade-offs:...
by aaron | Dec 12, 2017 | blog, Essays
Yesterday’s essay about the nineteen (19) women who’ve accused President Trump of sexual misbehavior can be summarized with the following: 19 different women have accused President Trump of sexual misbehavior Women lie about being sexually...