The adults have left the room. I don't think they're coming back.
When the FDA finally does approve the Covid-19 vaccine for children 12 and under, I'll be interested to see how many of these new...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 1, 2021
- 2 min
If Joe Biden wishes to bemoan partisanship, fine. Here's a strictly partisan piece. No apologies.
One of my favorite generalities is that we should never speak in generalities. Generally. But here are two anyway: The 74 million people...
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Chuck Radda
- Jul 7, 2021
- 3 min
In Christian County, Christian principles have no chance.
When a governor warns his constituents that the Covid vaccine is risky, it's hard to blame the people for acting dumb. Christian County...
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Chuck Radda
- Jun 27, 2021
- 3 min
"Finding" 11,780 votes may soon be easier in America when voting results are mere suggestions
Imagine a presidential election in a democratic country where millions of votes are cast and the margin of victory is razor-thin. Imagine...
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Chuck Radda
- Jun 20, 2021
- 3 min
The Church comes down hard on women's reproductive rights, but seems okay with anything else.
In the timeless patriarchy, misogyny, racism, bigotry, and sexual abuse get a pass. Abortion rights are the deal-breaker. A few...
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Chuck Radda
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
The poetry of vaccination—and why children can't stop the pandemic but adults can
When people think of William Carlos Williams—if they think of him at all—they remember this poem from high school. It's a poem that...
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Chuck Radda
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
Joe Manchin claims not to be naive–and claims to be a Democrat
The first claim may be permanent; the second appears more and more temporary. Accuse a bigot of bigotry and the first words out of his...
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Chuck Radda
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
The Know-nothing Party has become the "No, nothing" Party. You won't notice the difference.
The original Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s actually knew things. The nickname derived from the group's having evolved out of a secret...
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Chuck Radda
- May 28, 2021
- 2 min
Trump poisoned the well, and we continue to die from its contents.
Remember when Donald Trump was president? Remember when we dismissed everything he said as the rantings of an irredeemably aberrant...
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Chuck Radda
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
Unless ten trillion dollars can change four centuries of behavior, it may not be enough.
The election of Barack Obama to the highest office in our country 13 years ago, certainly did scare the bejesus out of a lot of white...
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Chuck Radda
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
A modest proposal to end gun violence in America.
With no apologies to Jonathan Swift, with whose work this would never be compared. The pandemic is a hoax. Oh I don’t mean a hoax as our...
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Chuck Radda
- Mar 18, 2021
- 3 min
We may romanticize "Jolly Old England," but the rampant misogyny of its police cannot be ignored.
In one circulated photo of Sarah Everard, the British woman whose recent murder in London has enflamed her country, she looks a lot like...
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Chuck Radda
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends—the "new" GOP.
My apologies to Emerson Lake & Palmer. In 2012 when Barack Obama cleaned the Republican clocks for the second time in succession, the GOP...
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Chuck Radda
- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
The Trump presidency ran on lies and deceit. Now we may have to reaccustom ourselves to truth.
Just when we were growing accustomed to our nice binary universe—you know, the one where Trump was evil and anyone who opposed him was...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 28, 2021
- 3 min
If the GOP is all in as the party of QAnon and the Proud Boys, we all need more voting options.
It would be easy to categorize this weekend's CPAC festival as the final degradation of the Republican Party, but since they show no...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 25, 2021
- 2 min
The death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti marks the end of one era, but a continuation of another.
I guess the only thing more shocking than learning of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s death was learning that up until earlier this week he was...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min
Too many of us chose tweeting charlatans over dedicated scientists; now, 500,000 deaths later....
When we reached a half-million dead from the Coronavirus on February 22nd, experts began tossing around numbers—the entire population of...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
We should not profane Rush Limbaugh's death, nor should we forget the damage he did in life.
Rush Limbaugh once defended his commentaries by saying he never said anything for shock value—he only said things he believed. That was...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
A Presidents' Day complaint (because inclusion is important to a democracy—on every day but one.)
If you were born before 1971, or better still conscious before 1971, you remember a different February—a month with two holidays ten days...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 14, 2021
- 3 min
If you live in a nation of laws but the laws are unenforceable, remind me again, where do you live?
In one Simpsons episode from long ago, Police Chief Clancy Wiggum, inept and lazy to a fault, stumbles across a plane crash with wreckage...
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