Sometimes people say to me something roughly like "you talk big from your keyboard, but you wouldn't dare in real life." This is the story of how four young men just learned differently.... [More]

I continue to be misrepresented and attacked for "ignoring" the racial issues involved in the Trayvon Martin case. Here is a careful analysis of those issues.... [More]

An additional comment regarding the racial issues I addressed in the first part of the article, in response to those who continue acting as though I'm "ignoring" the racist motivation of George Zimmerman.... [More]

The Trayvon Martin case has induced a wave of national stupidity and hate unlike any seen since the civil rights era. I'm told I have to "choose a side." Here is the side I choose.... [More]

Part 1 of 2 exploring some of the many problems with Ron Paul...and why one of them is the media's focus on racism.... [More]

Part 2 of 2 exploring some of the many problems with Ron Paul...and why one of them is the media's focus on racism.... [More]

The myth that Ron Paul is a friend to idealistic young people needs to be ended. He's not - especially if you believe in things like equality across ethnic groups, genders, and sexual orientations. Ron Paul is not your friend, and neither his is spawn, no matter how many times they push the "legal pot" button to distract people from their actual ideology and behavior.... [More]

Some thoughts on the rampant racism in Arizona. Interestingly, this video has generated more hate mail in a few days than anything else I’ve posted to YouTube.... [More]

Another video post, with transcript. This one was inspired by several rather ugly facebook groups with names like “I Live In America, I Shouldn’t Have To Press 1 For English,” and perhaps even more so by the disappointing and rather scary prevalence of people who should know better going out and joining it, leaving me in a position of having to explain to my non-white, non-English-as-a-first-language friends why I, who make so much noise about bigotry and hate and how we should all choose love and get along and work together, have so many friends who are, at best, American provincialists with a poor understanding of the principles their country was founded on.... [More]