It used to be that conservatives understood my positions. But now, they’ve moved right, and that contributes to centrists like me gradually being left out of the discourse altogether.
I haven’t moved to the right. If it looks like I have on a particular issue, chances are good that I’ve always been there. The liberals, however, have moved to the left.
I had hoped to simply sit NaNoWriMo out for a few years until it got through its growing pains. But it’s become clear that it is no longer an organization that I can support at all.
When it comes to the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremonies, there’s one reaction I haven’t seen much of, except by way of omission. And it’s the reaction I’m having: I don’t care.