Charlotte's Web Thoughts

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com .] The vice presidential debate between Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. J.D. Vance is tonight, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, network host CBS News has announced that moderators Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell will...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] While she was at Howard University, Vice President Kamala Harris worked at McDonalds to earn spending money, and now...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] Folks, we’ve been here before. We know how this will end. It’s no mystery what happens next. I will never begrudge an...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] Today, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck dropped a major story detailing North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] A few months ago, in the midst of the national fervor over President Biden’s debate performance, I was in a pretty te...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] All of us kids were sleeping in my mother’s room when the gunshot went off. The three of us who weren’t holding a gun...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] It always amuses me when some folks who are into hyper-traditional marriages claim that progressives are out to destr...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. A Navy SEAL, a doctor, and an astronaut walk into a bar. They’re all the sam...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] I’ve had a nagging feeling over the past several years that there’s an important aspect to evangelical church culture...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] We practiced with caskets that were stored outside our barracks building. To simulate the weight of honored remains,...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] On Wednesday night, at the Democratic National Convention, America was introduced to 17 year-old Gus Walz, the son of...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] I haven’t written in a minute because I’ve been exhausted — a happy exhaustion to be precise. The past week has taken...

The Medal of Honor is so revered that it's the only decoration specially emblazoned on headstones in Arlington National Cemetery. The Medal of Honor is so revered that when an Active Duty recipient wears it in uniform, it is customary, though not technically required, for all officers, no matter their seniority, to initiate a salute. If a buck sergeant is in uniform and wearing their Medal of Hono...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] According to a survey released by Pew Research Center in late 2021, a whopping 44 percent of childless males say it i...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] It’s been a surprising three weeks in American politics, to say the very least. After President Biden announced his d...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] Love of mythology is central to the American experience. We’d be much less happier—or perhaps, less entertained—witho...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] A little over two weeks ago, a user on Twitter posted a joke claiming, with a knowing wink, that J.D. Vance, the juni...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] It was 1999. The previous year, Matthew Shepard, just 21, had been beaten, tortured, and left to die on a fence post...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] You may or may not have a relative or friend or acquaintance in your life who has posted on social media in the past...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] Folks keep reaching out to me to ask whether or not their kids should read the "Harry Potter" series given J.K. Rowli...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] Okay, time out. Listen up. Contrary to the vile disinformation being spread online, there are no trans women competin...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] A few days ago, I saw a tweet go viral from a progressive commentator that mocked the dental care of Trump supporters...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] Last night, I was honored and delighted to join a phenomenal group of brilliant leaders and hundreds of thousands of...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] I’m 37, which means I’m in a period of my life in which many of my friends—if not most of them—either have kids or pl...

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription , shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com . And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee .] President Biden just announced in a letter that he will step aside as the Democratic nominee for reelection. He said...