Like many of you, I am absolutely sickened by the fact that twice in our lifetimes (and indeed, for the second time in the past sixteen years) the presidency has been handed over to a person who did not win the popular vote. This is, in two words, batshit crazy. The President of the United… Continue reading Thoughts on the Electoral College
Author: dvorak
Explaining Trump: An Introduction
This article was posted by one of my friends on Facebook, who is a professor in my same field at a different university. He said that it may have been the best article he had read all year, and I quite understand the reaction. Here is the link. I strongly encourage a read. It explains, from… Continue reading Explaining Trump: An Introduction
An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton
Dear Hillary, During your concession speech, you apologized for losing. Although I was extremely emotional during the whole thing, this was the first of two cases that I started to full-on cry. You owe us, and no one, an apology. I am already seeing post-mortems about the things you and your campaign could have and… Continue reading An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton
First Post – A Whole New World
It feels a little wrong to co-opt the title of a song from a beloved Disney movie to describe the situation in which we now find ourselves. But in the days since the election, those words describe exactly what I feel about where I am living. I will warn you now, this post is long.… Continue reading First Post – A Whole New World