Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day in the United States, the day we’ve set aside from everything to honor a man who did more, at least in our modern understanding, than any other single person to promote the Civil Rights…
Category: A Day in the Life
Aaron Swartz (1986-2013), Guns, and the Consent of the Governed
The founding fathers were the original terrorists. Before you read anything I have to say, I think you should go read this. In the article, Glenn Greenwald illustrates how the judicial bullying and eventual suicide of Aaron Swartz, Internet genius…
The Problem of Chronology
Perhaps the biggest problem with life is that it is lived in order. There are a lot of trite aphorisms with strong grains of truth along these lines. Youth is wasted on the young. If I knew then what I…
Nindil Jalbuck
The year has been slow to arrive. My family celebrated Christmas on New Year’s Day, despite the luminaria display on the normal date of the 24th, one marred (despite the optimism of my previous post) by a massive windstorm that…
Enchanted Evening
Everything’s just a little more intense in New Mexico. The colors are a little bit brighter, the emotions run a little bit higher, the sounds resonate a little bit louder, the smells waft a little bit stronger. You may think…
Cliff-Jumping
It’s really hard to tell whether there’s an actual crisis underway in the US federal government over sequestration. The original title of this post was going to be “Sequestration Now!” and it was going to be written as many as…
My Public Ballot, 2012 Edition
I first did this four years ago, when I lived in a state where the people are permitted to actually exercise democracy instead of republicanism and vote directly on a lot of issues. I also explained in a contemporary post…
My Name’s Sandy, A Hurricane-y
Original lyrics by Storey Clayton based on and to be sung to the tune of “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen and brought to you in part by cabin fever I caused a wave and a swell Turned a…
Interconnection
I shouldn’t be writing right now. I should be reading. I have time away from my apartment, the limbo between a day off and a day on, waiting for our debate event tonight and hoping that my absentee landlord is…
Mitt Romney and the Post-Political Nation
People have been asking me what happened to Duck and Cover. The last D&C I wrote was in early March of this year, and that was really only because I always bring the comic back for the Oscar season and…