Images of MAGA, then and now
From its birth, not in freedom but grievance, MAGA has always looked back to a past that never existed. The seed was planted in a longed-for Garden of Eden for white Christians, well-coifed men like Mike Johnson, self-made like Brett Kavanaugh, Barbie-looking women who couldn’t vote but could submit and child-bear, isolationists, and of course…
Of Satellites & Dust
This post is about our next dust bowl, brought to you by way of satellites orbiting 440 miles above the earth. Last week, Trumpandlandia announced that it’s killing off the only two federally funded satellites doing climate research. The data they collect is critical. It’s used by scientists studying how to forestall the collapse of…
A New Birth in … What?
On this Fourth of July, a day to celebrate liberty, we’re all at risk of losing ours. The unlawful ambush and incarceration of undocumented workers diminishes your liberty too. Scapegoating the LGBTQ+ community diminishes all of us. Stripping healthcare from the poor to further fatten the rich denigrates the entire experiment we call the United…
Father’s Day & The Red Road
George Washington is sometimes called the Father of the Country. By presidential descent, what does that make Trump, who has the slave-holder’s racism without any of Washington’s courage (Donald dodged the draft) or restraint (George refused a third term). Trump is the embodiment of the worst of us, untouched by what Lincoln called our better…
The More We Take
Hi (again) Friends, So I wrote this book … The More We Take is a novel that asks if we can love one another enough to love the planet and maybe save it and ourselves. Or are we stuck on a different track: taking as much as we can for as long as we can…
Kevin Curnin 