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Merging Our On- and Off-line Selves
February 6, 2022

I started using the Internet in the late 90s, when I was in my early teens and services like CompuServe, Netscape, and AOL were becoming, if not ubiquitous, at least more common. I remember the thrill of joining AOL chat […]

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Be The Change  / Musings  / philosophy

I Run a Nonprofit Lender. All I Think About is the Erosion of Democracy.
December 11, 2021

It is a fallacy to claim that because only one political party opposes this rising threat, fighting for the preservation of American democracy is a partisan issue. If a train is on the verge of crashing into a group of pedestrians, the political affiliation of the conductor is immaterial to the task at hand: saving lives.

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Anger’s All the Rage
November 23, 2021

“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” – Utah Phillips Of all that the so-called Facebook Papers revealed, most interesting, I think, is the fact that on social […]

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It’s Time for Corporate America to Put Up or Shut Up on Saving Democracy
June 14, 2021

The Big Lie that fueled an attempted coup now forms the basis of an entire political party’s strategy for holding on to power: make it hard for people who are likely to vote the “wrong way” to cast a ballot, label any election they lose as fraudulent, and slowly give themselves the power to overturn elections they disagree with.

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Be The Change  / Capital Good Fund  / Politics

Don’t Bring a Watering Can to a Five-Alarm Fire
May 23, 2021

Justice can only be achieved by the judicious application of power. Yet all around me I see emergencies–climate change, a Republican party rapidly descending into full-on authoritarianism, a shockingly unequal global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines–and good people failing to use […]

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The American Rescue Plan is Good for Democracy
March 7, 2021

The passage of the American Rescue Plan Act is good news for a nation still reeling from the ongoing pandemic and resultant economic crisis, but it is perhaps even better news for another element of America that is sick: our democracy.

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Our Nation Cannot Heal Without First Acknowledging Who Made Us Sick
February 27, 2021

Even after he came close to ending the American experiment, the vast majority of Republicans, including those backed by Koch, continue to stand with the former president. America’s political illness has led to great suffering, death, and inequity.

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Be The Change  / philosophy  / Politics

The Internet Is a Cesspool; God Bless the Internet: A Villanelle
February 20, 2021

Not much that goes viral is true
(what passes for truth these days?);
but let’s keep this between me and you.

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America on the Brink  / Be The Change  / poetry

How to Prepare for a Coup in a Pandemic
January 10, 2021

Sometimes, taking a break from the news and work,
I’ll spot the collected works of this or that poet
and, for a moment, have context for despair.

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I Condemn the Attempted Coup
January 10, 2021

One might reasonably ask why any nonprofit, let alone a nonprofit lender, should dare to comment on politics. Isn’t that best left to pundits and politicians? In ordinary circumstances, I might agree—to a point. But these are not ordinary circumstances.

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