The United States of America isn’t the best country on Earth – stop saying that. It certainly has the most on the planet. There is a difference, and the propaganda that encourages y’all to think it’s the best robs you of the opportunity to consider the whys behind all this misunderstood privilege.
Tag: United States of America
San Francisco, 2.12.25
Girl, we in danger. I’ll be deactivating Facebook shortly, but I want to remind you that just because they came in wearing red baseball caps that don’t mean that they are not theocratic fascists to reckon with. I encourage you to invest in your local newspapers, for their do still exist and provide an invaluable […]
Fuck Facebook
You can delete Facebook. Just like Twitter. It is doable. You will survive. We managed for a long, much more humane time without it, without social media. And don’t you know, don’t you know, you might like, thrive without it. We just might make it anew without it, as a society and as a culture […]
Bloomie’s
Bloomingdale’s is closing downtown, and it’s all your fault, San Francisco. It’s really rich to blame the city – a titty sucked dry by Big Tech once upon not that long ago – for downtown’s downfall. The gaslighting is real, #SanFrancisco…🙄 Blame Amazon and Facebook for making it so people don’t go out anymore to […]
For Your Consideration: Peace
Being destructive isn’t brave. Peace may not be as lucrative, but it cannot be ignored – no matter what today’s Academy Awards ceremony might suggest. There is more money in crisis, but we neither have to participate in the persistent lunacy of the game of war nor tolerate its most involved players (after all, it […]
What Leading with Anger Looks Like
What is happening in Gaza is stunning. And yet, I am not stunned. I’m calloused by the world’s self-immolation. There will be no cease of fire at this time. There’s too much anger and perceived strategic advantages that unimaginably outweigh the lives overlooked and ended. But it must be said that this is what leading […]
Killers Who Are Partying
What is happening right now is not normal. We were not designed to be in a state of war, of constant alert. A good thing that we are capable of defense, but it isn’t necessary or healthy to be in a consistent state of alarm, or outrage, of pain. And yet, that’s what’s been going […]
#SanFrancisco, 5.18.23
You know what is the problem with #SanFrancisco (anywhere with a fucked situation, really): People don’t listen and don’t make the meaningful effort to meet other people where they are. Fucking doctors don’t listen. So-called allies don’t listen. Even strangers that want something from you don’t listen. And then, they all get all bent outta […]
It’s So Perverse, That’s Why It Works
First they let your kids die. In school, at church, at the club, at the movies – everywhere. Then, they don’t do anything about it, and they get in the way of everyone that tries to make it better. They let you simmer in it, get angry. Then, angrier. At your angriest, you see the […]
San Francisco, 12.27.21
Everyone, “meet” the Cuevas family from La Paz in Los Cabos, Mexico. I met them at a Walgreens near Union Square, when I went to get my booster shot at my appointed time. They’re in town to vaccinate 11-year-old Junior with his first shot. The father is a cardiologist. Great at hearts, but English is […]
King of Cups 