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    I was taken aback after the 2016 Presidential Election, but not in the way you’d think.   I understand the higher over-arching symbolism that each candidate represented. Breaking the glass ceiling, women vindicated—or simply keeping someone out of office who openly derogated women, religion, and minorities. I understand what our President means to the world, what the position means to children and how the position sets the tone of what we agree upon as a society is acceptable behavior…

The 2016 Presidential Election has been challenging. An understatement, obviously. Not only has it challenged our democratic system and the strength of our union, but it has also touched our citizens personally. Deeply. It’s widely complex. Not just debatable on the way we interpret facts and policy, but also how we are choosing to represent our civilization. Our government, intentional or not, has become more than a government. It’s the organization we look to as…

Maybe you can never go home again. But if you could, Ghost Notes would be the soundtrack. For some reason I’ve avoided writing about Ghost Notes since it came out last summer. I’m not sure why—I really like this album. I also love Veruca Salt. They make the short list of my all-time favorite bands. The only thing I can think of is that I was trying to keep this album for myself. It’s like reliving a memory—something you’d only share with someone who understands what…

Guilty Pleasure? Embarrassed??? Hardly. As much as I love music, and devoted a significant amount of my life to it, I can still be pretty closed minded. I like what I like and over the last few years I’ve lived deeply in that bubble. Why listen to the radio when I’ve got 20k+ songs in iTunes? I also no longer care about being cool—I’m over having to be the first to hear a new rock band or searching for the meaning of life within lyrics. I think there’s two reasons f…

People are sheep, and Stanley Milgram scientifically proved it. How could the Holocaust happen? How can there still be institutional racism? And why it's going to happen again. Experimenter is available for streaming on Netflix and is a biographical drama of the controversial social psychologist, Stanley Milgram. Staring Peter Sarsgaard as Milgram and Winona Ryder as his wife, along with notable actors making small appearances throughout, the Experimenter flew und…

Internet Morality: Why? Ah, the internet—a vast, chaotic cosmos where pixels dance like drunken stars and every click echoes through the ether of human connection. But what, pray tell, is "Internet Morality"? And who died and made me the cosmic arbiter of it all? Well, in this gloriously undemocratic digital realm, I crowned myself. Why? Because chaos reigns supreme without a guide, and someone's got to play the reluctant shepherd. My entire professional existence has been woven into the web'…