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Continue reading →: Former President Obama Makes a Great Point About Being “Woke”So, earlier this week former President Obama called out cancel culture and so-called woke young people at his Obama Foundation summit in Chicago. I didn’t watch the entire hour-long speech, but I believe he was speaking particularly of the culture on college campuses. I see a ton of different applications for his…
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Continue reading →: Should MLB Cancel Robert Drake?Is racism like, a low key sickness of the mind? Or, if not racism – since I can’t make a strong case for that given my limited scientific knowledge – then bias or insensitivity, are they potential symptoms of a deeper mental condition? I ask because I just don’t understand…
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Continue reading →: Alma Har’el’s ‘Free the Work’ Makes It Easy to Find Diverse Talent in the Entertainment IndustrySo, filmmaker Alma Har’el has created a new tool to promote diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry. Free the Work is a searchable database for women and minority creatives, or what she calls “a sexy version of Spotify meets IMDb.” I like it for two reasons. One, it puts the onus…
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Continue reading →: My Solo Adventure in Seoul, South Korea: Tea, Temples, and Being OtherSo, I didn’t blog last week. The world ended. I’m kidding. It didn’t. I was in Seoul, South Korea on a long overdue, hard won, extremely different vacation, and I legit needed time to process. It was a trip. I walked around a 1,200 year-old Buddhist temple, sipped tea at…
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Continue reading →: Once a Racist, Always a Racist?With all this talk of whistleblowing and impeachment flowing around, I suppose it was only fitting that a story about questionable journalism ethics and poor social media skills caught my eye. CNN ran a piece today about Aaron Calvin, a Des Moines Register reporter who lost his job after writing a…
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Continue reading →: BBC, Prince Harry Accepts Your Apology – Because He’s BritishSo, I ran across a news item in The Guardian this week discussing how the BBC, the world’s oldest national broadcaster, apologized for not warning the Duke of Sussex before publishing a racist image. Now, the image the Duke – you may know him as Prince Harry, husband to Megan Markle,…
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Continue reading →: When Your Health Fails, It Really Makes You ThinkThis week’s blog is going to be a departure. I won’t be clowning some hapless nitwit who’s put their foot wrong on a global stage. I won’t be turning some insensitivity or low key cruelty perpetuated against a minority group into a teachable moment. No, this week, I want to…
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Continue reading →: To Like or Not to Like, the Eternal Social Media QuestionYou may have heard that Instagram is experimenting with its functionality. In July the popular social media platform began eliminating likes from posts in seven countries – the U.S. was not one of them – “claiming the feature will help to reduce its associated impacts on mental health and societal pressure.” The experiment hasn’t…
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Continue reading →: The Pitiful Tale of Bret Stephens, the Two-Line Tweet and Becoming This Week’s Media Bug-abooSilly nuggets like this week’s story about New York Times columnist Bret Stephens probably don’t deserve a blog. But I’m going to give some attention to what we can cheerfully call, “the bedbug incident,” as a cautionary tale for anyone who ends up as the butt of a public joke.…
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