It seemed like harmless fun. Star Trek Trexeles had me from the moment I heard about it. It had everything, a Star Trek theme, George Takei voice-overs and little pixellated uniforms. It promised to eat up endless hours of productivity… Read More ›
Random Rant
PSA on #imnotracist
The first part of this post is going to be a bit of a remedial class so please bear with me. Words and phrases have meaning. Not only that, but many of them are imbued with power. For example, if… Read More ›
License To Kill
And yet another one… I know it’s difficult to keep track of all of the brown people dying at the hands of various law enforcement officers all over America and vigilantes from Florida. But this one evokes an emotion that is… Read More ›
Link Round-up November 2014
So I’m going to do a series of irregular posts where I’ll point out some interesting stories or provide some quick commentary to news events without delving into a full-fledged blog post. This is a brand new idea that has never… Read More ›
Danny Ferry Must Go
By now most of you have heard of yet another National Basketball Association owner being caught making some racially charged comments resulting in being forced to sell his team. Apparently, Donald Sterling was quite the trailblazer. But I’m not here… Read More ›
A Tale of Two Police Departments & Hues
So by now most of you have read my post about how the entire situation in Ferguson Missouri reminded me of a particularly stressful interaction with the police of my own. With the murder of Michael Brown, many people have been detailing… Read More ›
Ferguson Feels Like…
I’ve been trying to reconcile my emotions about this incident since the story first broke. Beyond the anger, there’s such an intense and overarching sense of ennui that’s it really difficult to describe. Here’s the thing: in order to exist in America and… Read More ›
Media Problems: The Celebrity Fight Club Edition
Let me just say to the Internets and the mainstream media, I get it. I really do. This isn’t going to be one of those blog posts decrying celebrity-obsessed culture when there are so many more important things in the world…. Read More ›
So Now Video Games Make You Violent & Racist?!
So we’ve all heard all of the typical nonsense trying oh-so-desperately to link violent video game to actual real-life violence. It’s so laughably absurd it’s not worth getting into again (for earlier reference, see: Violent Video Games Linked to…Stupid.) Typically this… Read More ›
The Rise of Independents?
So Gallup has a new poll that has political media types extolling the power of independents. The poll basically says that party identification in down for both Republican and Democrats at 25% and 31% respectively. However, people identifying as Independents… Read More ›
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