What We Should Not Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
I will be the first to acknowledge that there is much to be thankful for about life in America, especially…
Category: Talk
Kennedy Was Right: We Are the Heirs of the First Revolution
The year was 1961. I was fourteen years old, the only child of blue-collar workers living in Peoria, Illinois. Lacking…
Who’s to Blame for Battlefield America? Is It Militarized Police or the Militarized Culture?
It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly is responsible for the growing spate of police shootings, brutality and overreach that have…
Welcome to the United Police States of America, Where Police Shoot First & Ask Questions Later
No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later.…
Who Will Protect You from the Police? The Rise of Government-Sanctioned Home Invasions
It’s 3 a.m. You’ve been asleep for hours when suddenly you hear a loud “Crash! Bang! Boom!” Based on the…
Red Light Cameras, Drones and Surveillance: Fleecing the Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies
We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the name of the national…
The Absolute Nothing of Binge-watching: A Symptom of an Ascetic Ideal
To fully understand the phenomenon of binge-watching, it would be best to take a look at where we are today:…
Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance
These days, it is far too easy to rattle off the outrageous examples of zero tolerance policy run amok in…
From NSA Spying and VIPR Sweeps to Domestic Drones: A Round-Up of the Police State Programs NOT Affected by a Government Shutdown
Like clockwork, we’ve ticked back to the annual government shutdown scare that invariably dominates news headlines and sends stocks seesawing…
Why Terence Sellers is Too Outré for Bohemia
In autobiographical fiction, Terence Sellers aptly predicted her fate as a writer. Her chosen subject matter, sadomasochism, was considered too…