A few thoughts on Dr. Jordan Peterson — It’s too easy to make fun of Jordan Peterson. Peterson first became famous because he refused to use gender-neutral pronouns on the University of Toronto campus where he was teaching. It’s the polite thing to do. However, Peterson argued it was tyranny. No one could force him to say things…

I randomly watched it. And I cried — I was surprised that the 2011 movie Warrior made me ugly cry and I’m not afraid to admit that. I’m a dude who cries. I cry at weddings and graduations and at videos of shelter dogs being taken home by their forever families. …

There are worse Halloween costumes than the one I wore in 2003, but not many — That year, the hole in downtown New York City was still fresh. Two years prior, of course, the terrorists had launched an attack that killed, well you know. My father’s grave was also fresh. He had died the previous summer of cancer. …

They’re both political fanatics — Every day there are multiple news stories of Americans who defiantly refused to take the Covid-19 vaccine and are either hooked up to machines in medically-induced comas or using their last remaining gasps of breath recanting their decisions and begging loved ones to get the jab. It’s all depressing. I’m…

And do I qualify? (Probably not) — My old man was gentle unless you managed to piss him off, and then you’d see the preacher’s boy inside him summon a little bit of the Old Testament. The people who could get his dander up included snobs, bullies, and Republicans, especially the Country Club types who are so…

First off, I am not a cynic… — Let’s play “the glad game.” The rules are simple, just re-read the name of the game. I’ll go first: I am glad you’re reading this essay. I’m glad I walked 10,000 steps today. I am glad the world isn’t as bad as it could be. …

On selling the promise of sex — Once, during an overnight elementary school trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the new kid told me a story. He was older than I was by six months, at least, and I immediately looked up to him. We were both sharing a bed in a dark hotel room where there were no…