The idea that religion or belief in religion makes someone a good person is nonsense. There, we said it. It’s like boozers or potheads. Whether someone drinks too much or smokes too much weed isn’t what makes them a good or bad person. What makes a good or bad person is how people treat each other. That’s it. Nobody, religious or otherwise, has a monopoly on goodness. It’s just not a thing that’s true. How we treat each other, and how we take care of others as well as ourselves, is the measure of the goodness in humanity, and right now, a lot of folks are ticking boxes in the ‘not good’ category.

We don't really think anyone is going to take the nomination from Donald Trump, which is a sad thing to say about the Republican Party who back him. Even with DeSantis in the wings, who has old-guard Republicans blowing smoke in his ear, not even MAGA will back him. To be clear, it’s not because he’s too extreme, but because Trump told them not to. DeSantis is kind of losing on all fronts right now anyway. So who’s the next proposed divider-in-chief, courtesy of the Republican Party? The next person to rise on the right will have to come through Donald Trump and a MAGA crowning ceremony.

Tangentially related, we need a lot more infrastructure or laws that help protect us as a society. What MAGA has done is highlight the fact that decorum used to be enough to run this country. Once we we the people that actually majority of people get power back we need to do some serious seriously thinking about how things are going, and put whatever laws in place we need to in order to keep people like Trump on a short leash.

And that’s sad.

Do you ever wonder why there is no white history month? When I was back in my Libertarian period, where I thought equality of opportunity was the same as equality in reality, I wondered about that too. Until I finally learned enough to know how little I knew.

A quick history lesson. “Black” is not a thing. As a moniker, it attempts to group all non-Europeans together and at first, when the world was perceived to be smaller than it is, this worked. Eventually, when we came across non-Europeans who looked like Europeans but spoke different languages, the term wasn’t expanded, rather refined to mean people from Africa.

I know.

At this point, you’re probably wondering still why we have a Black History Month if it’s not a real thing. Because of what is a real thing. See, “black” doesn’t begin to qualify all of the plethora of different and unique nationalities and communities that comprise the African diaspora—not by a long shot. But it does create a convenient converse for people who wish to declare their own original nationalities extinct and thereby move up the food chain: white. Polish, German, Italian, Japanese, and other ethnic groups have all struggled to ensure that they get grouped under the “white” label as opposed to the “black” one. Why?

Because as soon as “white” began to solidify as a group, they began to oppress and push down whatever wasn’t “white”. And then, because they knew, as one would have to, that oppressing others is wrong, they then tried rewriting history (in the United States, and other nations as well). The fact is that history doesn’t die just because you want it to though, and there was a sizeable chunk of the American population that wanted history to be remembered. Who?

Well, the “black” people of course. And yet, here we are, still trying to tell the truth of our history as a nation, and still getting pushback. Which brings me to the original question: why don’t we have a white history month? Because every other month of the year is white history month, and frankly, white history month has tended so far to leave out any sign of actual black history. Hence we need a black history month, and frankly, could do with a little less white history.