This is a period of great political strife, and by “political strife,” I mean, “We were all looking forward to seeing fewer political posts on Facebook.”I understand why people are upset. All of our Facebook associates are posting about politics even more. And totally changing each other’s minds. And, to a lesser extent, we still don’t know…
The year was 2016. On election night, I was catching up with elected officials at local watch parties [Kids, “watch parties” were events where people would gather on election nights to watch returns before society was disbanded.].That year, reliable polls indicated Donald Trump would lose handily, so I elected [see what I did there, using the verb, “elected,” but…
Loyal Scaiaholics understand my controversial position that we’re all mammals. Perhaps this idea is more important than ever as we approach the 2020 election.”Nothing could be more schismatic than this election,” we all said to each other in 2016. Then the other person would nod thoughtfully and quickly google “schismatic” to confirm its meeting.But our elected officials…
Earlier this year, I learned many of my Facebook associates are epidemiologists who specialize in the study of coronaviruses, posting articles and commenting on other people’s posts with strongly worded opinions about how viruses work.I had no idea many of those same Facebook associates are also experts in Constitutional law, who know exactly whether President Trump should or…