From tragedy, angst, and anguish comes something at once beauteous and empathic — (Not a Medium member? Click to read this article, gratis.) From The Desk Of Our Passing Moment He was just a nice gay guy who had seen me nakedmedium.com If Thou But Will Allow Testament to a love that survives yet in the breast of the partner surviving his lover’s death from AIDS in 1995medium.com Desire’s Fangs Dreams of love turn black in the time of AIDSmedium.com

The remarkable story of Kevin and the doghouse — (Not a Medium member? Click to read this story, gratis.) Some people maintain that one cannot remember events or thoughts from ages as early as four or five. I know that one can and does if the occurrence is distinctly affecting. I knew I was gay at age five. That…

It seemed so big…when I was small — (Not a Medium member? Click to read this story gratis.) We’re on the way to Ordway, but not by the regular route from the farm along the crisscrossing gravel county roads to Haswell and then on Colorado 96 west to Ordway. No siree! We’re going the back way along the…

Installment 2 — One person, three personas — (Not a Medium member? Click to read this story, gratis.)

It’s time to step aside, let the next generations have the stage — Aren’t you tired of entrusting your governance to old white men? “Frankly, it’s time for people in their eighties to move on,” said 76-year-old Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah), announcing his intent to step down from the Senate in 2024. We’re going to get some young people to step forward and to shape our party and make decisions that will affect the…

Section 3 is a potential means to prevent a second Trump presidency that should be pursued — (Not a Medium member? Click to read this story gratis) A debate has been playing out in three articles in The Atlantic over whether we should invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to disqualify Donald Trump from running for the presidency ever again. ▻ The Constitution Prohibits Trump From…

The Millennial and iGen generational cohorts are poised to have an outsized effect on national politics in 2024 — America’s current polarized partisan political divide is folly In American Political Polarization: How Much and Why (Aug. 24, 2022, accessed 2023.08.23) (“American Political Polarization”), we explored the partisan divide and political polarization that beset American politics in the period 1994 to 2014 “to determine how increasing political polarization and partisan antipathy were affecting American politics.”

When a supposedly superior legal mind spews horse pucky in the guise of reasoned analysis, people should call him out — In a comment published on 3 August 2023 in The Telegraph, Harvard emeritus professor of law Alan Dershowitz opines that the indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith against Trump for his actions leading up to the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol seeks to “felonise political lies” and thus…

Clue: serendipity is not a four-letter word — (Not a Medium member? Click to read this story, gratis.) 20 May 2023 Dear Journal, Luck, fate, and serendipity may seem to many to be roughly the same concepts, but the reader with a love of words and practiced in English will understand they are not. …