Dear President Biden, Yesterday I read the WP’s 2022 preview – the collection of mini-essays by a handful of reporters and editorialists wherein they attempt to read the tea leaves and predict the big ticket issues for the coming year. Here’s the list of topics (in order): The Pandemic; Climate Change; Elections; Food; Pants; Dogs; …
Transitions ~ small and big
Dear President Biden, Before I launch on the two topics of the day, I just want to circle back to let you know that the raspberries I picked this morning were quite tasty. Ok, next…. Hopefully this time the lesson will stick, but I’m not super confident that it will since it hasn’t the handful …
“Always make new mistakes”
Dear President Biden, I fixed it on my blog, but of course I couldn’t fix it on your correspondence page so I need to apologize to you for the slip up of having conflated you and Mitch McConnell -- “Joe McConnell.” It really was a slip up – perhaps of the Freudian sort – since …
The Big Lies
Dear President Biden, It’s a small problem, but it’s one that I don’t think is unique to me (though how it manifests for me might be a tad unusual), which is the problem of not knowing exactly how to efficiently call out the “bad guys” anymore. It comes up every morning when I’m reciting the …
The existential toll of confronting evil
Dear President Biden, I probably would have been just as moved, just as saddened and angered by DC police officer Jeffrey Smith’s death by suicide after the insurrection if he and his wife were going to celebrate their 2nd wedding anniversary today instead of February 2nd – the same day Laura and I celebrated our …
The Biden Letters 