8.20.2020
8.03.2020
7.27.2020
7.07.2020
7.01.2020
6.29.2020
6.28.2020
6.17.2020
6.16.2020
Do the Right Thing: Systemic Racism and Covid
It’s not too late to do the right thing. While Instagram activity is crazy high, black and brown people are still getting infected with Covid, right this minute. Let’s reform our police departments, and educate our parents, and set city budgets right, but what can we do right this minute to take down the silent killer that already taken 56 Durham lives and who knows how many more until a vaccine is found and administered.
6.11.2020
5.31.2020
5.23.2020
5.18.2020
CVS
To watch a Latino family try to get medications when they don’t speak English. The cashier uses Google Translate. The child is sick, and the father’s brown shoes are worn thin. What promised land is this?
5.14.2020
5.08.2020
4.30.2020
The long middle
I feel like this is the end but it is not the end.
All that I can control is what is in front of me.
It may feel like the end of the world, but it is not the end of the world.
Everything is stalled out.
As we sink into the monotony of the days and the depression of everything having changed, we realize how precarious the health and wealth of our civilization is.
What we need to do:
Not trust leaders who don't care about the environment
Not trust leaders who are racist
Invest in leaders that demonstrate intelligence and champion science
Invest in self-sufficiency
4.27.2020
Aggregate Public Health
With public health in the forefront of the fight against Covid, I think this abstract idea of aggregate public health has taken hold of the collective imagination like never before (i.e. flattening the curve, social distancing). But why stop with Covid? Perhaps this the time to think broadly and insightfully and take clear concerted action on:
- Obesity
- Cigarettes
- Weed
- Alcohol
- Domestic abuse
- Suicide
- Opioid Addiction
- Other plagues?
4.22.2020
4.19.2020
asterisks
Dear Rog, on your pod with Rebecca Lowe, you talked about the asterisk that will inevitably be attached to Liverpool‘s league win this year, the irony being that this is one of the winningest sides in the history of football. I couldn’t agree with you more, but for different reasons. Just as 9/11 seems to demarcate the moment that popular culture shifted from modern to postmodern, this Covid crisis will be seen as a inflection point of its own. In the pre-Covid era, our daily lives were infused with snark, irony, narcissism, ostentatious wealth, unbridled consumer capitalism, storylines of multi-multi-million dollar football contracts and foreign owners that play and cultivate teams like they were horses. In a post-Covid era, we will, we must, embrace football, but without this bullshit. If the burning trash pile also known as Donald Trump has taught us anything, it is that we still have an appetite for intelligence, and as two of the most intelligent football commentators of the world’s most intelligent and elegant game (I mean, what football commentator uses the word "interstitial" (correctly) in his pod or interviews a Booker prize nominee?), we can see plainly that to be a champion of football, as Klopp and his team has achieved, is of only limited worth. Most important is health, security, and the protection of safety nets for all people, rich and poor, black, white, and Latinx. The asterisk is present because the historical era that it demarcates, like B.C. or B.C.E., is context already to a world gone by.
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