Friends of mine are ditching Facebook and other social media. The election of Donald Trump dispirited them, shocked them, filled them with a mix of outrage, regret, and fear — emotions that spilled onto everyone’s feed in the form of personal rants[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Last Thursday night, watching cable news and monitoring Twitter for updates on the shooting in Dallas, I re-experienced in condensed time the mixture of frustration, horror, fear and confusion we went through during the Boston Marathon bombing and the days[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was recently asked by a librarian colleague to contribute a cartoon to a time capsule. Held by the Oregon Library Association, the capsule will open in 2040. Although I had the option to pick any old thing I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So far the “reasons to doubt” allegations of sexual assault by vice president Al Gore seem less like reasons to doubt than cases of cautious reporting and police investigation — both worthy things if we presume the accused is innocent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…