By Don Hall

…that we sure spend a lot of time being outraged about things we already knew: R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and rich people gaming the system for their kids — who didn’t know these things before “the news” told us to give a shit? Also, did you know that Trump was a lying ass?

…that anyone can be a bigot but, in America, only white people can be racist. Stop using the word racist when you mean bigoted. The phrase “All white people are racist” is true. The phrase “All whipipo are bigoted” is not and is, in fact, bigoted itself.

…that the return of James Gunn to the helm of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is good news on two fronts: it means the third installment will be good and it signals that maybe we’re getting past some of this nonsense of storming people’s lives for shit they said or wrote decades ago.

…that there is nothing wrong with capitalism and the only thing wrong with any system of economic structure (communism, socialism, etc.) is that people in power always want more. Even (most) wonderful people with grand altruistic hopes become greedy monsters when afforded power.

…that the politics of Us vs. Them, while completely human in all anthropological and sociological respects, will end up being the demise of a species biologically driven to keep creating more of Us and more of Them.