Ask yourself this: What was stopping them before? — At first, I thought the news that men are lining up for vasectomies was a good sign. And then I realized the truth. These men could have gotten a vasectomy at any time, but they did not see a need until Roe was overturned. Let’s break this down. As I’ve written before, women already…

In case you’re confused: Policing the poor is good. Policing the rich is bad. — Great news for wealthy tax cheats: It looks like the GOP’s aim to defund the IRS succeeded. The Republicans were willing to risk a U.S. debt default in order to force funding cuts to the Internal Revenue Service. That is how strongly they felt about protecting their base. So is it good to fund the enforcers who go after criminals or isn’t it?

We have so many different kinds of marriages now! — Prenuptial agreements used to be what a rich man made a poor woman sign so he could marry her and then discard her without risking his fortune. But I see them in a different light now: A well-thought-out and greatly expanded prenup might make marriage a lot better. Part of…

Seriously, who told you? — I first learned about Medium in a Facebook group called What’s Your Plan B? It’s a 17,000-plus group of former newspaper people, most of them not very happy about being “former.” Some show up to the group reeling and scared to death they’ll end up living in their car. A…

They are running out of scapegoats — The GOP has a problem. It needs to focus its followers’ attention on a villain to distract everyone as it does everything possible to extract wealth from the masses and concentrate it into their greedy little hands. In the past, they had great luck with gay people, but unfortunately (for…

We just call it something else now — Many ancient people practiced human sacrifice. One or more human beings would be thrown into a volcano or off a cliff. The Aztecs practiced heart extraction at the top of their pyramids. There were other ways, all of them awful. The cultures who practiced human sacrifice believed it was necessary…

Well, lots of things, but let me make my point — I’ve barely paid attention to the tempest in a beer can because I seldom drink beer and when I do, it’s not Bud Light. But then I read some details about the conservative boycott against the beer. It turns out that most of the angry conservatives who boycotted the beer…

Share your list of the words you despise — People who don’t know how to write well love to use big words. But good writers never use a big word when a simple word will do. Sometimes you do need to use a big or unusual word. But do you really have to use any of these words? Here’s a list of words I hate with a passion: 1. Anodyne …

It wasn’t a bullet that killed newspapers, though. — Newsrooms in the past were places where anything could happen and often did. There was no finer place to work than in an old newsroom, and for all of you who missed out, I’m sorry. Those days are long gone. I started working at my city’s daily paper in 2001…