Chris Honoré: ‘If you’re not busy, let’s do coffee’
As I write this, Donald Trump is in France for Bastille Day, at the invitation of the also recently elected president, Emmanuel Macron.But I keep thinking about his trip the week before to Germany...
View ArticleChris Honoré: An irrefutable existential threat
How to write about climate change and convey in the words and sentences the abiding urgency of what is now an irrefutable existential threat? I’m not sure. I do know that in the midst of all the sturm...
View ArticleChris Honoré: There but for the grace of ...
How can any Republican with a shred of decency seriously participate in the Kabuki dance recently performed in the Senate, its purpose to dismantle the Affordable Care Act?To a person they know, absent...
View ArticleChris Honoré: ‘Like the world has never seen’
According to a report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, North Korea has successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead that could be placed on top of an ICBM, a missile, according to a recent test,...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Asserting a false equivalency
They came walking out of a dark Friday night on the University of Virginia campus, a long line of young men (and a few women) carrying tiki torches, chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” and “blood and...
View ArticleChris Honoré: POTUS — Once again, unscripted
Three speeches in three days. The first was delivered to an audience of our troops, aides and cabinet members in Arlington, Virginia, and read verbatim by Trump from a teleprompter in an even tone,...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Harvey as a black swan event
According to Wikipedia, the term black swan derives from a period when it was believed that such birds did not exist. They were, however, later discovered in the wild and were regarded as both a...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Deconstructing Trump’s base
During the summer, Trump sent out a number of cobbled-together tweets, all referring to “his base.” He wrote, “Hard to believe that with 24/7 #Fake News on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTimes, WAPO the Trump...
View ArticleChris Honoré: POTUS and the presidential pivot
This intense political season (which still continues) has indeed been fertile ground for language, meaning words/metaphors/images that have been created not just by politicians but also by the...
View ArticleChris Honoré: ‘Dreamers’— six months and counting
In thinking about the schism that currently exists in our nation between Republicans and Democrats, I am aware that for many it is not simply a matter of point of view, but one of ideology, meaning a...
View ArticleThe mystery of the toppled blue bin
It’s vacation time and, like so many, I was driving north on the I-5 on my way to the beautiful Oregon coast. It was one of the first genuinely warm days we’ve had, with winter seeming to bypass spring...
View ArticleMocha Musings: The unconditional love of dog
Will Rogers, the actor and humorist, said many years ago, “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” I couldn’t agree more.I look at my own dog, Ranger. He is old...
View ArticleMocha Musings: Crisis can bring our inner voice to the surface
Summer can be a time to lie on our backs and watch the clouds go by, to listen to the sounds of a nearby stream, its cool water slipping over the rocks, and the laughter of children playing and...
View ArticleMocha Musings: Aghast at Senior Center changes
“But how can that happen?” my friends who don’t live in Ashland are asking me. “That’s not the Ashland we know.” They are referring to the recent “recommendations” by the Ashland Parks & Recreation...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Into the weeds: The deep state
At the risk of wandering too far into the weeds, I want to try and define what is meant by “deep state,” a term of art used to describe much of the government Trump Inc. now presides over.To begin...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Silence and our national shame
When Congressman Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot, along with three others, while practicing for a congressional charity baseball game, the press and the pundits found themselves facing a dilemma....
View ArticleChris Honoré: Republicans and the safety net
Part OneIn one of his last speeches, Hubert H. Humphrey said, “... the moral test of a government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Republicans and the safety net
Part TwoFor well over half a century it has been a fundamental tenet of our society that we will provide a safety net for all Americans. To generation after generation, it has been a promise made and a...
View ArticleChris Honoré: ‘If you’re not busy, let’s do coffee’
As I write this, Donald Trump is in France for Bastille Day, at the invitation of the also recently elected president, Emmanuel Macron.But I keep thinking about his trip the week before to Germany...
View ArticleChris Honoré: An irrefutable existential threat
How to write about climate change and convey in the words and sentences the abiding urgency of what is now an irrefutable existential threat? I’m not sure. I do know that in the midst of all the sturm...
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