Death, Blogging, and the New Year

by | Jan 5, 2007 | Neoliberalism | 7 comments

A little over two months ago, I got into a car accident.  Leaving the office at about 2:30am my Grand Caravan was hit by a kid driving an out-of-control White Jeep Cherokee.  The kid groggily got out of the car and quickly fled the scene on foot.  Come to find out...

Taxes are good for you

by | Dec 29, 2006 | Neoliberalism, Politics | 4 comments

I’m combining two posts that are related. Rachel is talking about the recent election of Deval Patrick in Massachusetts. Someone asked a group of Asians, Latinos, Whites, and African Americans to name their biggest concerns. Education, crime, jobs, and...

Democracy and Hip-hop, a Manifesto

by | Dec 22, 2006 | Afrofuturism | 7 comments

I don’t know if they’d call it a manifesto, but what the folks at Democracy and Hip-hop have laid down certainly reads like one. Let me say at the outset that this is the type of critical work that we need to be creating and fighting about. This is the...

Did You Know that Somebody OWNS THE MOON?

by | Dec 18, 2006 | Afrofuturism | 1 comment

Ok.  I was checking out an interview with Minister Faust.  Faust, wrote one of the most original pieces of science fiction that I’d read in the past few years in The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, and given that he’s got a new book coming...