A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa by Dominique Lapierre is, ultimately, a good book about a great story. It is only “good,” in and of itself, rather than “great,” because while parts of it are amazing, and all of it tells an amazing story, too much of it tells an [...]
The above Argentinian PSA got me all verklempt. It shows a series of transgender Argentinians talking about how it feels to have the name on one’s ID not match one’s identity…With its perky, music, straightforward speech and from-the-heart feel, it celebrates trans rights beautifully…and it’s on television. Read the rest of this post (and [...]
Today at The Night Bazaar, I’m considering the way in which my obsession with writing about war reflects my own internal neuroses, and how that is reflected in the tragedies of war in the real world — especially the “collateral damage” visited on civilians, child soldiers and other draftees, civilian infrastructure, politics… If war is [...]
Because I tend to read so randomly, I just listened to the audiobook of the 2008 release of Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World. Sadly, he’s now released an updated edition. So this is only the first dose of complaining about this book. Dedicated readers can look forward to another one. That’s because while I found [...]
I did a guest post over at Suvudu.com called “The House of Corporate Horrors,” about the writing of my novel The Panama Laugh and what it all means! And also how my zombie novel is one of the extraordinarily few zombie novels (some would say “the only”) directly connected to Occupy Wall Street and Occupy [...]
Yves Smith’s blog Naked Democracy linked to Destiny’s interview with me at 10ZenMonkeys in its links list today — and as Destiny points out, put us before links to Paul Krugman and the Washington Post. Huzzah!
When I was a kid, I never really cared what I was for Halloween, as long as it got to kill people. More often than not, I dressed up as the characters I thought were having a way more exciting life than me: guys in the Army. Yeah, I know (now) that guys in the [...]
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Posted 28 October 2011
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Tagged: Halloween, Law Enforcement, Monsters, Night Bazaar, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Oakland Protests, Occupy Sacramento, occupy wall street, Police Action, politics, Protest, Zombies
The smoking is what everyone’s getting worked up about. But there are actually several weird things about this Herman Cain campaign ad: 1) First is how confused Herman Cain’s chief of staff, Mark Block, seems about his lines. He seems to pause in odd places. Block is chief of staff to a guy running for [...]
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Posted 25 October 2011
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Tagged: 2012 election, advertising, big tobacco, cigarette, herman cain, julie simone, mark block, politics, presidential election, smoking, smoking fetish, tobacco
From my new article in Tiny Nibbles: Flip-flopper Mitt Romney demonstrates not only that he’s confused on the abortion issue, but on how babies are made; Rachel Maddow helps him sort it out. But all major Republican candidates advocate a Constitutional Amendment that would eliminate all hormonal contraception, including The Pill. Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vk1XbyFv51k The truly great documentary How to Start a Revolution screens again this weekend at SFIndie’s Docfest. This isn’t some abstract exploration of modern life; it’s an example of revolutions get made in places like Egypt. Give a damn about American politics, economic justice, Occupy Wall Street? I suggest you track this film down, or [...]
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Posted 20 October 2011
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Tagged: bosnia, burma, documentary, documentary film, egypt, from dictatorship to democracy, gene sharp, How to Start a Revolution, indonesia, insurgency, iran, kyrgyzstan, nobel prize, occupy wall street, revolution, ruaridh arrow, san francisco, thailand, venezuela, zimbabwe
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