BST = Bumper Sticker Thoughts. Unquipping quippy quips. Thoughts about actual bumper stickers and thoughts that ought be bumper stickers (or t-shirts, or hats, or whatever). I saw a small, well-used pickup truck with a tailgate plastered with no fewer than eight pro-Trump and anti-Biden bumper stickers. But what caught my eye was the juxtaposition … Continue reading BST: Bumper Sticker Hypocrisy
Category: Political Thoughts
BST: An Enemy of the Press
BST = Bumper Sticker Thoughts. Unquipping quippy quips. Thoughts about actual bumper stickers and thoughts that ought be bumper stickers (or t-shirts, or hats, or whatever). An Enemy of the Press Is an Enemy of the People The press – the legitimate press, that pursues facts wherever they lead, and reports what they find as … Continue reading BST: An Enemy of the Press
BST: We Want You to Think; They Don’t
BST = Bumper Sticker Thoughts. Unquipping quippy quips. Thoughts about actual bumper stickers and thoughts that ought be bumper stickers (or t-shirts, or hats, or whatever). Liberals want you to think like them; Conservatives just want you to think. It occurred to me that the sentiment is meaningless for a couple reasons. One, you can … Continue reading BST: We Want You to Think; They Don’t
BST: God Gets All the Credit
BST = Bumper Sticker Thoughts. Unquipping quippy quips. Thoughts about actual bumper stickers and thoughts that ought be bumper stickers (or t-shirts, or hats, or whatever). Why Does God Get All the Credit, But None of the Blame? It happens all the time, at all levels of society, but we most publicly see this phenomenon … Continue reading BST: God Gets All the Credit
BST: If You Have to Lie
BST = Bumper Sticker Thoughts. Unquipping quippy quips. Thoughts about actual bumper stickers and thoughts that ought be bumper stickers (or t-shirts, or hats, or whatever). If You Have to Lie to Make Your Point, You Don't Have a Point There's really nothing more to say about this one. It's the rare aphorism that holds … Continue reading BST: If You Have to Lie
America: White-Supremacy Addict
Listening to The 1619 Project has been eye-opening, and it has inspired some new understandings of our nation. Like the fact that America is a recovering white-supremacy addict. I’ve never heard it framed that way, but it seems to fit our national identity perfectly. Just like a drug or alcohol addict, America will always be … Continue reading America: White-Supremacy Addict
Selective Blindness and the Promise of America
With the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, it’s worth looking back a few weeks at Senator Ted Cruz’s take on President Biden’s now-fulfilled pledge to nominate a black woman to the court: "The fact that [Biden’s] willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, … Continue reading Selective Blindness and the Promise of America
The Purple People’s Polling Party
More than many other things that America needs, is at least one more viable political party to challenge the false dichotomy of the left and right, the liberals and conservatives, the Democrats and the Republicans. I propose we make the next great party the Purple People’s Polling Party. Build the party around just one thing: … Continue reading The Purple People’s Polling Party
BST: Give a Man a Fish
BST = Bumper Sticker Thoughts. Unquipping quippy quips. Thoughts about actual bumper stickers and thoughts that ought be bumper stickers (or t-shirts, or hats, or whatever). Give a Man a Fish, and He’ll Eat for a Day. Teach a Man to Fish, and He’ll Eat for a Lifetime. This one has such a simple ring … Continue reading BST: Give a Man a Fish
BST: When to Be Ashamed
BST = Bumper Sticker Thoughts. Unquipping quippy quips. Thoughts about actual bumper stickers and thoughts that ought be bumper stickers (or t-shirts, or hats, or whatever). I Wish People Knew When to Be Ashamed A disturbing number of our fellow citizens no longer understand (or accept) when they should be ashamed – what thoughts, ideas, … Continue reading BST: When to Be Ashamed
Heath Fogelman, author 