I’m tired of being angry. Democrats blast Americans who “elected crazy Donald Trump,” and Republicans blast liberals who “ruined the economy under Joe Biden.” I’m a Democrat because my top issue is human rights – the freedom for everyone to be who they are and live without fear, which includes some groups I don’t particularly […]
Read More →On Nov. 15, 2023, my heart rate hit 148, and an overly assertive nurse friend nagged me to get it checked. After 20 hours in the emergency room, I was told by a cardiologist that my heart had an easily fixable glitch and not to worry – and by a pulmonologist that I had stage […]
Read More →Originally appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 8, 2019. Dr. Freud: Come in, come in, Mr. and Mrs. Party. Marriage counseling is a significant step. I hope I can help. Rep: It’s nice to meet you Dr. Freud. My name is Republican, but my friends call me Rep, and this is my wife, Democrat. Demi: […]
Read More →First published in The Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 22, 2018 Republicans believe that private business – free enterprise – will solve the nation’s problems, providing an ultra-small government backs off and doesn’t muck it up. Republicans are wrong. Democrats believe that private business has a corruptness about it, and a large government – a “we the […]
Read More →Article first appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, June 4, 2018 Circa 1979, I walked into a lesbian bar with a friend who fit that profile. Once inside, roughly 50 lesbians glanced at me — a man — before turning back to their drinks. I became invisible. But this isn’t about lesbians. It’s about racism. And […]
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