Frank Kovarik, Author at Occasional Planet

Stop kidding yourself: Trump will not be a normal president

I believe that many of those who “held their noses” and voted for Trump believe that he didn’t really mean all of the vile

Yesterday from 12:15 to about 2:15 in the afternoon, I marched with about a thousand other people from the spot where Mike Brown was

Back on August 8, 2012, I published a piece on Occasional Planet in which I pondered the intense hatred that President Barack Obama inspires

Remember in 2008 when the process of running for President seemed to drain John McCain of most of the qualities that had once made

During the administration of George W. Bush, I remember feeling a more or less chronic sense of despair and incredulity at the state my

Visiting Disney World with my family last week, I took in the show at the Hall of Presidents in the Magic Kingdom’s Liberty Square.

In Memphis, they’ve turned the hotel where Martin Luther King was murdered into a museum honoring the Civil Rights Movement. Across the South, “Civil

The other day I took a bike ride along the Riverfront Trail in St. Louis. The trail runs north from Laclede’s Landing, following the

Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, published in 1965 two issues on “The Negro American.” Some 56 years later,

Watching the coverage of President Obama’s speech about the killing of Osama bin Laden, I find myself in agreement with various friends (on Facebook