With enemies like these
Well I was not expecting to go on vacation right after NaBloPoMo started when I first signed up, and I have a few things to say about the idea that by missing a couple of days I have “blown...
View ArticleProposition 8 over my dead body
Given that this is a queer blog, or that is it is a queer blog to the extent that the writer considers himself quite rather queer, it might seem odd that I have not said a whole lot about Proposition...
View Articlemore blogs what to read
this post is to list a bunch of additional links that are headed for the blogroll sorta type list of links over on the right; the one that needs a new graphic under them: one that doesn't stop in the...
View Articlea political post–almost
we might think about our own 3000 dead in 2001 compared to the tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths we've caused as a response since 2003. where did it begin? probably before memory begins. where will it...
View ArticleNo enterprise zone
Lately in the Mission District in San Francisco--which is to say, the last 18 months or so--police foot patrols have been increased in order to "increase neighborhood safety and awareness of crime."...
View ArticleRootlessness and restlessness in white America
I've been thinking for a long time about my own sense of almost complete alienation from the white Protestant suburbanism I myself came from and that is often thought of as the neutral American...
View Article"Helping" Iran– or first, some historical humble pie
The Iranian people want their own independence, especially from foreign intervention. Anyone can read Iranian history and figure that out within just a few hours. We already monumentally fucked them...
View Articlewhy greed is now closer to godliness than ever.
why do fundamentalist Christians worship "all-for-me, nothing-for-you," greed-driven, planet trashing consumption-driven capital above just about any other kind of economic system? Continue reading »
View Articleback.
When I was six nobody knew where Seattle was. That was not at all what I meant to say. Continue reading »
View Articlekilling you softly
I do not mean by this that ultimately I will be dead, but rather that my being dead, or my not being, or something inexpressible that has to do with never having come to be to begin with despite my...
View Articlethe historical record is skipping again
A couple of people with more readers than I will ever have have spoken up so far, and they are articulating my own thoughts very well. Especially Stephen Fry, who points out the obvious--the glaringly...
View Articlebring me the pill for infelicitous birth
. . . and so because virtually anyone with a decent-sized megaphone with which to address addiction gets it completely and horribly wrong just as those speaking about trauma and PTSD also get it...
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