And anyone who denies this hasn’t thought it through — When I was a renter, I had a decidedly mixed experience with landlords. Some were excellent. Some, however, were awful, regularly failing to fix heating or AC units when they went out. Perhaps you’ve experienced something similar or worse? Now imagine you had, and suppose you were to tell me…

Sorry, but it’s not even a close call — Perhaps my title here strikes you as harsh and the subtitle as mere hyperbole. But they are neither. And if you think about it logically, you’ll know that I’m right. A brief story will illustrate the point. My wife and I have two daughters, both of whom are adults now. …

…and two bonus questions to prove the absurdity of this crap and the people who support it — Florida lawmakers insist that the recently-passed “Parent’s Rights in Education” bill is not a censorship law. Nor is its purpose to discriminate against LGBTQ folks in the Sunshine State. Despite opponents labeling the legislation the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, supporters swear it doesn’t prohibit teachers or school officials from saying…

And by educated, he means post-prom — Some people are smart enough not to say the quiet part out loud. But then again, some people are also smart enough to know that you really shouldn’t have sex with underage girls once you’re an adult. And in neither case would one of those people be Congressman Matt Gaetz. …

It’s not state’s rights or even abortion — it’s the control of women and the imposition of Christian authoritarianism — You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. Whether it’s their close friends or the ideological company with which they cavort. Or those whom they favorably quote. Consider Justice Samuel Alito, who, in his recently leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, made it clear…

Evangelical Christians regularly push their beliefs and lifestyle on others. It’s not OK, and we shouldn’t be afraid to say so — Yes, America has a groomer problem — millions of fanatically dedicated persons looking to recruit others, even young children, to their beliefs and lifestyle. If a child’s parents raise them to think or live differently from the groomers, the groomers will aggressively seek to turn the child away from the…

Saying otherwise is moral relativism and makes you sound stupid — The lengths to which some will go to downplay America’s history of racism or other forms of injustice never ceases to amaze. For instance, consider those who insist that we “shouldn’t judge people from past eras based on today’s moral standards.” You’ll often hear this said about those who enslaved…

Teachers are often the best support system kids have. Attacking them puts that at risk — You don’t have to be a QAnon cultist to agree that child sexual abuse is a serious problem worthy of attention. But you do have to be one — or at least a Q-adjacent conspiracist of staggeringly stupid proportions — to believe American schools are teeming with pedophiles who use…

An unmoderated free-for-all is an invitation to bullies, bigots, and trolls that will further toxify social discourse — Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and poster child for narcissism, is looking to buy Twitter. Not just the 9 percent of shares he purchased last week, but the whole thing. First, because as the world’s richest man, he can do things like that, and as a gigantic asshole (which…