Month: July 2005

Last night, I caught “The Fire Next Time,” a riveting PBS P.O.V. special — about the effect of hate speech on community conflicts — that will reair this weekend. I could not take my eyes off the TV...

This is more of a personal statement than one regarding political news or activism, so please don’t recommend. The title of this diary is to a certain extent self-explanatory. That said, I’d like to elaborate....

David Lazarus of the San Francisco Chronicle often has an interesting take on current events, and today is no exception. In an article called “Privacy is easy to breach”, following an instructive re-cap of the...

I read a great editorial in the NY Times about a man from India, and how when he arrived in America he became instantly smart – the best in his class at math. American education takes a good bit of bashing. But the bashing...

I just added this to the My Left Wing MANIFESTO GAY MARRIAGE Every time I hear some sanctimonious fuck spit out, “Marriage is between a man and a woman, in God’s eyes,” I think of the Max von Sydow line in...