by Ty Davison | Aug 7, 2020 | News & Commentary
I am not a better person than I was a year ago. I’m fairly confident of that, and it’s a depressing realization. So many things in 2020 have aligned against having a positive mental attitude that it’s almost difficult to know where to start. Like...
by Ty Davison | Aug 6, 2020 | News & Commentary
City Council eliminates Gun Violence Reduction Team. Gun violence soars. Shocker. Portland’s deadly July: Domestic violence, suspected love triangle and gang retaliation among 15 killings – oregonlive.com: The tit-for-tat killings involve adversaries from...
by Ty Davison | Aug 2, 2020 | News & Commentary
Andrew Sullivan is a superb, important writer. I followed him avidly during his Daily Dish blogging years. So happy he’s returned with the Weekly Dish. The Roots Of Wokeness – The Weekly Dish: And in this worldview, individuals only exist at all as a...
by Ty Davison | Aug 2, 2020 | News & Commentary
Trader Joe’s, responding to demands to change its packaging, says the product labels aren’t racist – CNN: More than 5,000 people have signed a petition calling on the grocery store chain to change what they call its racist branding names, using...
by Ty Davison | Aug 2, 2020 | News & Commentary
I saw author Garry Kasparov, then world chess champion, speak at Stanford University in the ’90s. He’s a brilliant mind with interests far beyond the chessboard. America’s Mission – Persuasion: From the very beginning, that nation was rife with...