The game “Cards Against Humanity” has a new (unofficial) expansion pack

If you haven’t played CAH, where have you been for the last few years? Now the company is including a new pack of nasty quotes from Donald Drumpf, the supposed Republican presidential nominee. Considering how raunchy is the regular CAH game, this should be a real winner.

ICYMI: Helping Justin Sweetwater

Justin is trying to get his medication, but he can’t do that without a proper ID (as I wrote for Mother Courant on Sunday). After a stint in jail, Justin came out with a name change he didn’t ask for, and now he’s having all kinds of trouble. Frankly, I’ve been scratching my head over this, but Sunday, …

In which being a turd makes you famous

…but only for a minute. I’m back on early now.

I am writing this with the hope that you can read it.

Today, a week after the gorgeous Blood Moon, a Philly-based religion, eBible Fellowship, is predicting that the world will end. Oooh! Maybe it already happened! I wouldn’t know  because I’m typing this the night before when all you sinners are going about your lives, unaware that yet another crackpot cult is spewing its nonsense Jesus is coming and …

The pope met Kim Davis. Big whup.

Though the world at large is just finding out, during his pop-the-balloons and hug-the-babies visit to the U.S. last week, Pope Francis met Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who’s adamant about not doing her job because God appointed her judge and stuff, in private, at the Vatican Embassy. The embassy is also known as the The Apostolic …

Connecticut’s caught between an aging population and too-few affordable rentals

I wrote this for WNPR. Onward.

I’m all for a giggle, but a study that identifies “real vampires?”

I believe I am on record as being pro-science, immensely liberal, and hungry for some good data, but this study examines people who really and truly believe they are vampires, and how we should accept them. We should not worry unduly about this. The researchers say people who believe they are vampires (as opposed to …

Atticus was a racist?

With “Go Set a Watchman” now available to the rest of us — and not just rarefied book reviewers — will you read it? I am all for knowing what’s out there to be known, but I cannot overstate the impact “To Kill a Mockingbird” had on my thinking. I read it the summer I …

On leading tours through a Southern plantation

A 100 years ago, I went to Savannah with a friend. We both had always wanted to go — for me, I’d wanted to see the lush city since reading “Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil” — but what I found at the actual town was a white-washed (literally) view of the Old …

At the Reaching Home Dinner last night…

…hosted by Partnership for Strong Communities, where I once worked, some people were given awards  for leadership, for tenacity, for all kinds of good qualities that together can help end homelessness in Connecticut. One of the honorees, David Rich, of Supportive Housing WORKS, quoted St. Augustine and said, “Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.” …