Make Humanity Tolerable Again

Stop me if you've heard this one. "Okay, Mr./Ms. Left-wing Freedom-of-Speech Nut. So you claim to honor and value the first amendment, and yet when someone offering different views prepares to speak on a college campus, you protest and riot and whine and scream and get their appearance canceled. How very progressive of you." Or this one. "I see...so you can decide you don't want alt-right customers in your store, but when someone else refuses to bake a cake for a person they disagree with on moral grounds, it's suddenly not okay? Can you say, 'hypocrisy'?" Or this one. "A comic can use all kinds of awful vulgarity, can insult and slander politicians, can get away with just about anything...but God forbid someone tell an off-color joke about race. Wow...people just cannot take a joke anymore." You should have stopped me. Because, dollars to donuts, you've heard all three. And you've also heard these terms: PC polic...

DEEP BREATH. There were plenty of ups and downs last night. I'm sure we all felt alternatingly thrilled and devastated as we stayed glued to our phones and televisions into the night. And, if you're like me, you've noticed those feelings carrying over into the hours - and now days - after. You could certainly start tabulating the positives and negatives, and come up with a lengthy list for each...but then you'd probably start feeling discouraged that, for every one of our gains, we've given something back, or fallen short of achieving a given objective. But there's one thing that's giving me a healthy dose of hope. Every election cycle or two, the balance of power in at least one chamber of Congress swings the other direction, as our country has inevitably stalled or at least not fulfilled all of the wildest dreams and desires of the electorate, and the people decide that all they want is change, whatever form that may take. It dawns on us that our re...