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For more specific details of what is going on, check out Lawfare’s wonderful piece on what we do, and don’t, know about this event.    Last Friday the political world was rocked, a weekly occurrence these days, by the surprise firing of former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe. Attorney General Jeff Beauregard Sessions […]

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Depending on who you ask I am a vegetarian, flexitarian, freegan,  lacto-ovo vegetarian, broke, and/or someone who overthinks their diet. With the exception of the last one, all of these descriptions are technically inaccurate. I don’t eat meat, unless the food will otherwise be thrown away and my consumption of it will not create an […]

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Alternative facts are near and dear to the heart of this blog, but I am afraid we may remember today’s debates over reality fondly in two decade’s time. I am going to pose a problem, prediction, and question.   In the midst of a presidential campaign that has become almost synonymous with fake news, PolitiFact […]

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I first entered the political arena by organizing weekly protests against the US Occupation of Iraq, in 2006. While I stopped leading the marches nine years and half a month ago, they still provide a good introduction to my ongoing philosophical relationship to violence and power. I am a proponent of direction action and while […]

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I. I want to talk to my family In 1933, my great grandparents sent their youngest daughter to the United States of America. She was only 18, but her parents trusted her to survive.  My great grandparents sent their youngest daughter to the United States of America and told her to make a new life […]

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