As I drove my son to preschool this morning, I happened to hear a local DJ refer to the fact that one of the co-hosts is 23 years old. After I recovered from the shock of realizing that this woman was FOUR when those 9/11 happened, it got me thinking. There are teens and young…
You know when you have those “lightbulb” moments? I had one yesterday. As I listened to the president’s press conference, I was taken back to the worst week of my college years—the week I came down with H1N1 or “Swine Flu.” Right before I became ill with what I can only describe as walking dead…
This is unequivocally wrong. Yet… It also saddens me to see the plethora of social media posts suggesting that the atrocity that happened in Minneapolis is somehow mainstream. It makes it harder not only to deal with what happened here and bring justice to those who deserve it, but it propagates a falsehood; a falsehood…
So. Where the heck have I been? If you’ve listened to The Chris Salcedo Show on Houston’s KSEV 700 for a while now, you’ve probably noticed I haven’t been appearing on the show or doing much writing at all. All’s well! At the beginning of the year, I took some time off to address the…
Scientists must be willing to question everything. To be a scientist does not make you omniscient; it makes you an expert in the field, but even the experts get it wrong. Like the experts that Galileo bucked when he suggested the solar system revolved around the sun and not around the earth; like the ones…
I haven’t said a lot about COVID-19. Not “politically,” anyway. It’s been a project in and of itself to be working full-time while wrangling two small children who are being just as patient as they can be. I’ve been listening to a lot of people. Medical professionals, commentators, our local and national leadership… and I’ve…
I’ve just finished one of the most hellish weeks of my life. In the course of just 7 days, I’ve gone from business as usual, to finding out my grandma has an inoperable, extremely aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme that will, barring a miracle in the most literal sense of the word, kill her.…
“Let us begin where our Founders began” you said, reverently—as you announced your directive that the House impeach the President of the United States. “Democrats too are prayerful,” you concluded, “and we will proceed in a manner worthy of our oath of office, to support and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic,…
It’s snowing outside my window. The brightness of the Christmas lights on our pine trees (yes, yes we have Christmas lights pre-Thanksgiving, don’t @ me) fades as daylight tries to peek through the ever-present gray clouds of a Minnesota winter morning. Stores are already jam-packed on the daily with people vying for the best deal…
A Future Free 