One scam after another after another

For years I’ve rarely shopped in physical stores except grocery and drug stores. But I’m annoyed enough with online shopping to think about going back to brick and mortar businesses.

Trying to separate the person from the politics

Raising the socialism bugaboo, a reader asked to be removed from my subscriber list after my last anti-Trump post.

I’m not a socialist. In fact, when I took the Pew Research Center’s political typology quiz, there were three political typologies to the left of mine, which was “Order and Opportunity Left.”

What bothered me more than being mischaracterized, however, were my feelings. The scorn I felt toward the unsubscriber (whom I know) made me feel bad about myself and prompted self-examination. That led to thinking about how I speak about Trump supporters in general — with condemnation, ridicule, “How could they?” disbelief.

What’s to celebrate?

Like countless Americans, I’ve been ignoring the semiquincentennial. In our current political climate, what is there to celebrate?