In late 2016 I published an op-ed entitled “Trump and LGBTQ rights: Your worst nightmares unlikely to come true.” The premise of the piece was basically what you’d expect from the title. People were freaking out about Trump and his cronies reversing the progress made in the fight for LGBTQ+…
I don’t throw up. I can, in all seriousness and without exaggeration, count on one hand the number of times I’ve vomited in my entire life. My kids often ask: if you had a superpower, what would it be? There are some good ones out there. Invisibility. Telekinesis. Becoming an…
When a man’s head has been blown off with a shotgun, you’d expect there to be more of a mess. But a 12-gauge to the temple, at close range, can be surgically precise. I was a third-year law student, still in my 20s, when I learned that. Our clinic director…
“Stumpy’s gonna breathe fire.”
“Do what?”
“Yeah, Stumpy’s gonna breathe fire. On stage.”
A long pause. We stare at the road.
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
“Well, we don’t exactly know how he’s gonna do it yet, but there’s that middle part in ‘Godzilla’ where it’s just drums…
Now that it’s been two months since Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation, I can confidently say she is not qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Sure, she was nominated by the vilest figure in the last century of American politics. Sure, McConnell rammed her nomination through the Senate while…
I look over the singer's shoulder at his lyric sheet. He doesn't drink, so the ring at the bottom of the page must be the sweat from a watered-down glass of Diet Coke. I do drink, and so I confront him. “’In the weight of the moss bone eater?’ …
January 1, 1975: Propelled by the national mania of the drug war, and the corresponding push to criminalize every imaginable human action, the Kentucky General Assembly enacts KRS 525.140, which can land someone in jail for 90 days if they "obstruct a highway."
August 8, 2020: During Breonna Taylor Summer…
Leandro Andrade served his country in the U.S Army for nine years. When he got out, he had a drug habit. That drug habit caused him to get into some trouble. In 1983 he was arrested for a string of burglaries. But he mostly stayed out of trouble until 1995…
If you’ve spent any quality time in the Hoosier state recently, you may have noticed that very few people are masking or social distancing. It’s true that things looked bleak in September: Last month’s new infection rate was our second highest ever, hospitalizations were through the roof, and an average…
In 1999, a cop named Tom Coleman framed forty-six people in Tulia, Texas, on felony drug charges. Thirty-nine of Coleman’s victims were Black, a number representing ten percent of the city’s entire adult Black population. Almost all of them pleaded guilty and received sentences of up to ninety years.
