Invocation There will be events in your life that are so monumental they become impossible to write about. It becomes part of the cultural background,the lighting. “What’s water,” said the […]
Commentary - Culture
Farewell, Aunt Jemima
ZEITGEIST UPDATE: I published this on the 3rd. On the 9th, this happened. Time to buy lotto tickets. As a matter of general principle I try to avoid opening anything […]
Celebrities - Commentary - Politics - TV
The Teacher and the Troll-King: James Baldwin and Milo Yiannopoulos in the Age of Social Media and Liberal Decline
We’ve had a peculiar confluence of two names that have re-arisen in popular consciousness: Milo Yiannopoulos and James Baldwin. Yiannopoulos, the disgraced now-former Breitbart Editor, for his outlandish and self-aggrandizing […]
Commentary - Politics
The Way Forward 1: The Rust Belt
I. Context For a period of time in the mid to late 80’s we lived in Northern Virginia, an area called Fairfax county, just south of Washington, D.C. Coming from a five-college […]
Commentary - Music
History is Blind
I used to have a book that I kept in the bathroom called “The 100”, which made the case for the 100 most influential people in history. When people heard […]
Commentary
Eating the Elephant – BJJ Year One
A number of years ago I watched an event called the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). By now there have been dozens if not hundreds of UFC matches. The brand is […]
Celebrities - Commentary - Humor - Politics
The Lisa Simpson Problem
The New York Times seems to have caught on to what I have been saying all along: that candidate Hillary Clinton has a Lisa Simpson problem. For those of us […]
Comics - Commentary
The Hero We Deserve
Recently this piece in The Guardian caught my attention. In it, Alan Moore, notable author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and all-around high priest of counterculture and geekdom, is […]
Celebrities - Commentary - Short
Who Speaks for Us?
It occurred to me some years ago that I didn’t know what neither Saddam Hussein nor Kim Kardashian’s voice sounded like. This led me to conclude that if you don’t […]
Commentary - Short
And Now A Brief Aside on Predicting The Future.
I wrote a blogging application sometime around 2004 or 2005. Prior to launching it on our Social Media site, my boss at the time asked me, what should we call […]