Jerry Chasen's Blog

Just how clueless (and disingenuous) are Republicans anyway?

It’s unusual for me to find someone stating my own perspective on something better than I can.  It’s even more rare when that statement is coming from someone I thought hadn’t even the awareness of that perspective, much less agreed with it. Nonetheless that’s where I find myself today.  Both in an op-ed piece in [...]

The Times had an article yesterday about Uganda considering making homosexual activity punishable by death.  American Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push. Turns out some American Evangelicals traveled to Uganda, and spouted off some stories about “how ‘the gay movement is an evil institution’ whose goal is ‘to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it [...]

I read with some sadness Ellen Goodman’s final column yesterday.  She’s been an astute observer of our culture for as long as I can remember, and what she had to say about “retirement” was right on the money. I loved what she had to say about “what’s next”.  She doesn’t know.  She does know that [...]

A really wonderful piece on YouTube–by a 20 year old.  A litany of  bleak observations, all of which are in ample evidence, followed by “Unless we choose to reverse it”, at which point, the litany is read in reverse (it’s a palindrome), and all of what came before is indeed reversed.  A clear example of [...]