For the uninitiated, the quote is from baseball great Yogi Berra. Yogi was a man who - despite great intentions - often struggled to get the message across. The comparison seems apt for many on the left who have similarly genuine intentions but have also failed to stick the landing when it comes to conveying the point. What I'm referring to is propensity on the left to buy into the framework that all of the cruelty of the Trump administration represents an aberration as oppos

Lately I have tried to remember that you can start over quite literally whenever you want. You can start over when you bottom out. You can start over when things appear fine on the surface. You can even start over right after you just started over. There are no rules for this and there doesn't have to be (unless you want there to be and you make them, which is also an option - how lovely!). There's something beautiful about recognizing the autonomy of being able to start over

The new year brought a familiar tragedy. Minnesota is again at the epicenter - shockingly, the murder of Renee Good took place less than a mile away from where George Floyd's life was taken by Derek Chauvin in 2020. In the aftermath, we've seen the same playbook from both sides of the political spectrum. The right, hell bent on justifying every last murder by law enforcement, has been even more unscrupulous in their attacks on reality. The liberal establishment has, predictab