Avoiding the Trap of Offense and Grievance-Mongering

Pepsi. United Airlines. Sean Spicer. At first, I thought that maybe I should give a quick re-cap of the details surrounding the recent controversies in the news related to these entities. After all, readers who missed the pertinent media reports will only perceive a random, disconnected list about as meaningful as “sketch pad, Vietnamese flag, Kim Cattrall.” Actually, I Googled Kim Cattrall and the word “controversy” just to see if there indeed ever were any controversy, and of course, there were positive hits returned. I only picked her name because I liked her in Star Trek. The Google results prove …read more