There is apparently an insidious and ubiquitous song about baby sharks. I’ve never heard it. For all of the joking I do about such things, I actually did damage my entire week on Monday morning with a stupid mistake. I’m back to about 80% now. It’s been an important opportunity for reflection. As much progress … Read more
I got about as heavy a shot of Roman Catholicism as any Protestant kid ever gets, I reckon. I went to Catholic school. It was only for three years—fifth through seventh grade—but that’s plenty enough to get “the plot,” as George Costanza once put it. Middle school kids don’t have much to keep up with, … Read more
I don’t consider the war on human trafficking a particularly partisan one. In fact, when I speak to a group as a representative of the North Alabama Human Trafficking Force, somewhere near the end I make that very point, saying something like: This is not a Democratic issue, or a Republican issue, or a white … Read more