Rad/ish. Episode 2. — We did this project on Medium at the end of 2017 called Words That Matter. It was a neat thing. We asked writers to select a single word that encapsulated something meaningful or important to them about 2017, and then reflect on the year through the lens of that word…

Rad/ish. Episode 1. — I want to write more in 2018. Not because I am good at it. I am not. I am mediocre+ (dibs on Mediocre+ for my new Ska band name). But I wrote very little in 2017 and a void was felt. Also, I want to get better at writing and…

Jyn Erso + Rose Tico & The Last Jedi — This is a speculative post of very little consequence about the new Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, and the origins of one of the ostensibly new key characters, Rose Tico. (I don’t know who Rey’s parents are) I think Jyn Erso saved the life of a young Rose Tico…

Either way, he doesn’t care — Judging from yesterday’s exchange during his unconventional (?) press conference, Donald Trump doesn’t know what the Congressional Black Caucus is. And apparently, Donald Trump sycophant Jeffery Lord, thinks the CBC is a problem akin to KKK leader David Duke launching a Congressional White Caucus, Lord stated: I used to think…

Words matter. They’re critical tools for debate, inspiration, and understanding. We take them seriously at Medium. We know you take them seriously, too — 200 million words were published in January, Medium’s biggest month in history. Driving that growth are people well-known and unknown, sharing their insight into what’s happening…

Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., …