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• #88: 7/29/2021: Songs w/ Substance #9 – Nick Lowe – “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding?”
• #87: 7/7/2021: What Critical Race Theory looks like in my Social Studies classroom
• #86: 3/10/2021: Confessions of a Fraudulent Vegetarian
• #85: 2/7/2021: Marijuana Legalization: Why aren’t Republicans leading the charge?
• #84: 1/24/2021: Make America Democratic Again – Why Democrats should make democracy their #1 priority
• #83: 1/17/2021: The Insurrection & the Outlook for a Post-Trump America
• #82: 12/15/2020: The Top 15 Christmas (& anti-Christmas) songs that you’ve never heard of
• #81: 11/8/2020: A Guide to the Rigged Election
• #80: 11/6/2020: Election 2020: Reacting to the Results
• #79: 10/25/2020: Don’t Vote For Trump: A Final Plea to Potential Republican Voters
• #78: 10/4/2020: Why I’m Voting For Joe Biden
• #77: 9/20/2020: How to Brainwash a Student Trump Supporter
• #76: 6/17/2020: Reparations for Racist Plunder: Addressing the Racial Economic Divide
• #75: 5/28/2020: Reactions to the Riots
• #74: 5/27/2020: Thoughts on George Floyd, 24 hours later
• #73: 5/14/2020: Thoughts on COVID-19: Where we’re at and where we’re headed
• #72: 3/20/2020: The Transparency of Trump’s “Chinese” Virus
• #71: 3/16/2020: Sacrifice in the Time of Corona
• #70: 2/28/2020: Why I’m voting for Bernie Sanders in the Super Tuesday Minnesota Primary
• #69: 12/22/2019: Thoughts on the Trump Impeachment
• #68: 8/6/2019: What I learned from my week at the border
• #67: 7/16/2019: Weighing in on Ilhan Omar v. Donald Trump
• #66: 6/28/2019: The First Democratic Debates: Some Takeaways
• #65: 6/19/2019: Immigration, Compassion, & Policy
• #64: 3/25/2019: The Mueller Report: Trump exonerations should be good thing for Trump-haters
• #63: 6/30/2018: Taking on Trump with democracy and civility
• #62: 5/31/2018: Songs w/ Substance #8 – John Prine – “Lake Marie”
• #61: 5/27/2018: More cun control would lead to less gun violence. Period.
• #60: 5/20/2018: Teaching, Ideology, & Neutrality
• #59: 11/3/2017: The CAPS LOCK President: Why I like nuance, and why Donald Trump doesn’t have it
• #58: 8/18/2017: Thoughts on Charlottesville: The necessity of conversation
• #57: 7/27/2017: Donald Trump’s Military Transgender Ban
• #56: 7/17/2017: Single-payer healthcare in the state of Minnesota
• #55: 6/30/2017: Songs w/ Substance #7 – The Handsome Family – “So Much Wine”
• #54: 6/25/2017: The killing of Philando Castile and the acquittal of Jeronimo Yanez
• #53: 6/1/2017: The Walker Art Center and the “Scaffold” Controversy
• #52: 5/10/2017: The Disbandment of the Forest Lake Police Department and Student Resistance
• #51: 3/10/2017: Trolling Tomi Lahren’s Trolling of International Women’s Day
• #50: 3/2/2017: Songs w/ Substance #6: Eels – “Line in the Dirt”
• #49: 2/28/2017: My problem with the Trump resistance
• #48: 1/30/2017: Pushing an atheist agenda
• #47: 1/1/2017: Reforming Presidential Elections and Instant Runoff Voting
• #46: 11/27/2016: Songs w/ Substance #5: Josh Ritter – “The Curse”
• #45: 11/19/2016: The Alt-Right Wink
• #44: 11/12/2016: Making sense of the 2016 presidential election
• #43: 10/23/2016: Are we all monsters?: The connection between luxury and suffering
• #42: 9/13/2016: Why Vikings fans are better than Packers fans
• #41: 8/24/2016: Songs w/ Substance #4: Rage Against the Machine – “Maggie’s Farm”
• #40: 8/19/2016: “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”: A must read for Americans
• #39: 8/10/2016: HBO’s “The Night Of” does not have a “black people problem,” but the United States does
• #38: 8/5/2016: Taking on the man: A tale of two renters
• #37: 7/30/2016: Songs w/ Substance #3: The Mountain Goats – “Dance Music”
• #36: 7/28/2016: Contemplating a Clinton vote: The trials of a third party voter
• #35: 7/27/2016: When being a tourist feels good: The Phang Nga Elephant Park
• #34: 7/7/2016: Songs w/ substance #2: Ben Harper – Call It What It Is” (A Response to Baton Rouge & Falcon Heights)
• #33: 7/6/2016: How much does it cost to watch the last place Minnesota Twins on a Tuesday night following a nearly 3-hour rain delay?
• #32: 7/6/2016: Songs w/ Substance #1: Pink Floyd – “A Gunner’s Dream”
• #31: 6/23/2016: When it comes to feminism, I’m a skeptic of the skeptics
• #30: 6/15/2016: Thinking Through Orlando
• #29: 6/4/2016: Public education and Teaching outside the ideal
• #28: 5/29/2016: Pot in Football: A No-Brainer Brain Saver?
• #27: 5/19/2016: Donald Trump is no longer a joke, so we should stop laughing
• #26: 4/1/2016: The Supreme Court Kerfuffle and an Obama Ultimatum
• #25: 3/7/2016: Islam & the Regressive Left
• #24: 2/15/2016: Hillary pragmatism vs. Bernie idealism
• #23: 2/7/2016: As the opposition, libertarians are a breath of fresh air
• #22: 1/10/2016: Minimum wage: Living wages are the only wages
• #21: 12/29/2015: Protest, Privilege, and Paying Attention
• #20: 12/23/2015: Why I for some reason like Christmas
• #19: 12/15/2015: The street corner conundrum: To give or not to give?
• #18: 12/7/2015: An atheist’s guide to love and the afterlife in free verse
• #17: 11/29/2015: I’m a Black Lives Matter supporter, and I’m frustrated
• #16: 11/22/2015: Thinking through Paris
• #15: 11/12/2015: Systemic racism, or just racism?
• #14: 11/6/2015: The case for some socialism
• #13: 10/22/2015: Student Loan Debt: One year in
• #12: 10/16/2015: Why the Cubs and their ‘woe is me’ fans can suck it
• #11: 10/13/2015: Textbooks are not neutral
• #10: 10/4/2015: Voting with the dollar
• #9: 9/26/2015: Historical Consciousness and the Global Immigration Crisis
• #8: 9/18/2015: Every protest is a nuisance in its time
• #7: 9/10/2015: What a professional educator looks like
• #6: 9/4/2015: Fuck Lake Calhoun
• #5: 8/27/2015: A Thought Experiment on the 2nd Amendment
• #4: 8/25/2015: Street-Parking People
• #3: 8/20/2015: How I think I can maybe try to justify celebrating an Adrian Peterson touchdown
• #2: 8/15/2015: The Meaning of Black Lives Matter
• #1: 8/12/2015: Nuts Over Nukes