The Devil's Gift

Creationists wield the biblical story of creation to oppose the exclusive teaching of evolution in American public schools.

Many of you will be at my book launch this afternoon. Most won’t. Many of you live a long ways from Shepherdstown

Some of you “corrected” me for what I said in last Sunday’s post. It wasn’t for my praise of education.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States. There has always been.

We are many. They are more. I don’t like them. They laugh. We mourn.

I expect Harris to win. But if she doesn’t, what then?

All my MAGA friends are worried.

I remember when “old friend” only meant “dear friend.” Now it actually means old—as in, well, doddering.

First Helene. Then Milton. Massive hurricanes inflicting death and destruction on innocent people.

I found myself in one of those churches that are fueling the Trump cult. Oh me, oh my.