I’d like to share my briefs with you. My brief comments, that is.

Sometimes a little sanity is in order. These days, a lot of sanity is in order. I don’t purport to be someone of great wisdom but I do consider myself pragmatic. In that spirit, I share my briefs with you below, random and unabridged…

 

Sometimes a rainbow is just a rainbow.

Most times a niqab is just a niqab.

The only thing we have to fear is a fear-mongering candidate on the campaign trail.

Oxymorons: Jumbo Shrimp, Military Intelligence, President Trump.

Pride and Greed: When did two of the Seven Deadly sins become a requirement to run for public office?

The Tea Party was a Canuck band long before it was a band of Ka-Nuckleheads.

Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. But people can kill a lot more people with a gun.

Jesus would never be packin’. Just sayin’.

Black lives matter. Co-opting the slogan for your own means just totally misses the point.

The USA: 5% of the world’s population, 25% of the world’s incarcerated population. The Land of the Free is the Home of the Imprisoned.

Giving boxes of Kraft Dinner to a food bank is not “Tackling Hunger”.

Canada is planning on building a wall to keep Justin Bieber in the US.

It’s a simple formula, guys: Stop being idiots. Women like guys who aren’t idiots.

It’s easy to take offense; much harder to extend grace.

If you live in the suburbs you’re not uptown or downtown. You’re just town.

Wonderbread is the suburbia of wheat products.

The War on Christmas rages on in the world, leaving a bloody red trail of Starbucks cups in its wake. Oh, the humanity!

Since 9/11, 0.000003 percent of refugees admitted to the US have been arrested for plotting terrorist activities. Also since 9/11, irrational fear and prejudice have made people really bad at math.

Simple equation: Refugees + Seeking Asylum = LET THE DAMN PEOPLE IN!

Free people don’t live in fear or act out of hate. Doing so just makes you a slave.