Tag Archives: Politics

What’s Wrong With Gary Byrne?

Posted on April 24, 2025 by fredhesser

Gary Byrne is the Indiana state senator from… Byrneville? Really? …Sure. This week, he made moves to remove “Consent” from the Sex Education curriculum of Indiana schools. He has reconsidered this, amid huge and well deserved backlash, but he did … Continue reading →

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Pride Picnic 2021

Posted on June 30, 2021 by fredhesser

We arrive early to help set up the picnic. Volunteers are already organizing by the time we arrive, led by a black person with rainbow hair named Star (they/them). I am introduced to Star by Caelan, and learn that Star … Continue reading →

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Cthulhu is a Corporation

Posted on April 1, 2019 by fredhesser

Think about it for a minute. Really think about it. Imagine Amazon. Not the rain-forest, the company, the corporate entity owned by Jeff Bezos. Can you imagine the size of it? The ‘size’ of Amazon’s online storefront? How many things … Continue reading →

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Why I Stopped Writing The Flying Squirrels

Posted on February 4, 2019 by fredhesser

So I haven’t published anything here in awhile, and the reason for that is not that I gave up writing, but rather just that I started working on a project I’d like to keep private for now. It took up … Continue reading →

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Elder of the Conclave (cont.)

Posted on September 4, 2018 by fredhesser

[I’m back! This is a continuation of this story. I doubt I’ll return to this little universe, at least for a long while, but I fell out of the habit of writing for awhile and wanted to get back into … Continue reading →

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Long ago

Posted on April 16, 2018 by fredhesser

Long ago, in the days when there were still fish in the oceans and cars on the roads, there lived a woman who was not afraid of governments destroying us. It had nearly happened, she knew that, but that was … Continue reading →

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Local Politics

Posted on March 12, 2018 by fredhesser

Local politics can be weird. Correction: local politics are like national politics in microcosm. Including all the weirdness. At the end of February, I attended a Public Safety meeting at City Hall in my town about the police buying a … Continue reading →

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Forgiveness

Posted on February 26, 2018 by fredhesser

“You have to forgive people,” a friend of mine told me not long ago. I took issue. You don’t have to forgive anyone. At no point, no matter what happens, are you required to forgive someone for what they’ve done. … Continue reading →

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Terrorism

Posted on February 12, 2018 by fredhesser

I nearly lost my mother to terrorism. I didn’t, but it was close. I was 7 at the time, and didn’t understand it. It took me years before I really thought about it in terms of “Terrorism.” For a long … Continue reading →

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One Star Soup Kitchen

Posted on October 18, 2017 by fredhesser

I saw a one star review of a soup kitchen. The existence of such a review says so much before I even read the content. I didn’t question why the review existed, because of course it did. It is everything … Continue reading →

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