THE REDUX

      You argue with Republicans. You punch Nazis. Illiberal times call for illiberal actions. The plea from some progressives to defend decorum while our institutions are systematically disassembled is under...

I learned early on in my recovery from addiction that the only thing I can really change is me. I learned later, as I struggled with significant mental health issues, that even changing oneself is an exercise in limitation.

Of course, this doesn’t stop me from attemptin...

I found an old tweet from the election today. “I’ll take the cynical technocrat over the racist nihilist.”

I still would. The breathtaking incompetence of this administration and the sinister prioritization of petty, punitive measures is nothing short of a disaster. But...

The Petty Tyrant's version of Christianity. 

I remember the excitement that would come with getting everything arranged so I could get high. The anticipation of relief was more addictive than the intoxication itself. The intoxication was messy. Blackouts, shame, withdrawal, scrapes with the law, all of that stuff...

Every once in a while, my brain tells me that I should off myself. It’s not like it is a surprise, being that it is generally the bottom of a months-long descent into depressive garbage, but as familiar as I am with this deal, feeling suicidal is terribly unnerving. Ac...

The religious right never was very interested in Christianity, in fact, their roots were in protecting segregation.