It’s pretty simple. When the questions you’re “just asking” are based on lies, the questions aren’t just questions. They’re lies. In service of other lies.

Every once in a while I just stop in my tracks and think: This is NUTS.

Sanity, empathy, and competence seem to have been undervalued motivators of governance.

All newspapers and news shows should make sure COVID is one of THE leading stories each and EVERY day. The death toll, overwhelmed hospitals, economic reverberations, inequities, vaccine rollout. We can’t allow this to become background noise. For heaven's sake.

Who’s counting the White House silverware?

Dr. King was only a few years older than me. I think of that often, especially on his birthday. We were young men when we first met. And already he was a once-in-a-generation leader. How much more he could have accomplished. How much more America, and the world, needed his voice.

Brilliant scientists produced nearly-miraculous vaccines in record time. Politicians, officials, and policymakers have screwed up the delivery. It’s a national scandal, echoed across many states, that can measured in hardship and death.

Perhaps lost in all the madness that has been going on is that Joe Biden’s life path to this moment has been remarkable, a journey of tragedy, perseverance, hope, and an uncanny ability to defy the odds.

If you want an omen for 2021 that this year may be a wee bit different, may I suggest Exhibit 1a: The #Bills .

As bad as the Trump Administration looks today, I firmly believe history will judge it much more harshly.