• The End of an Error

    In so many ways, the 80s ended last night, June 2nd, around 8:15pm, after tuning in to NBC’s Hit Me Baby One More Time to see what A Flock of Seagulls was up to these days. I immediately got up… more ›

  • Crash Course on the US Constitution

    An open letter to Foreign Relations Chairman Richard G. Lugar (R-IN): Despite the fact that you have twenty-nine years of public service in the United States Senate and that you were a Rhodes Scholar, you could not be more wrong… more ›

  • You might be a radical if …

    … instead of playing cowboys and Indians on the school playground during recess, you and your friends played the SLA vs. the bourgeois Establishment pigs. Patty Hearst had a profound influence on me as a child. I used to memorize… more ›

  • Revolution’s comin’ & it’s gonna come quick / Revolution’s comin’ & it’s got a big dick

    In the spring of 1989, my friend Michael (AKA Snakebreath) and I went to see Tito’s Wake, a play about the death of the Yugoslav dictator. It was probably my first taste of avant garde theater: there was nudity &… more ›

  • Finals/New Beginnings

    Finals week is more than half over; I have two more exams to give before I’m out from under the obligations of my job(s). I love my job(s). Don’t get me wrong. I would prefer to have one fulltime position… more ›

  • A word of advice

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  • A Debate Too Far

    Transitions Online: A Debate Too Far Included in this rather ambiguous article are several reasons why I studied history, specifically WWII history, all those years ago. And yet it doesn’t matter if the war anniversary was 60 years ago (VE)… more ›

  • Cattle Guard

    As if to prove how busy I’ve been lately: The toilet paper has not been replenished in the bathroom for several days now I have at least 3 emails from one of my oldest & closest friends that I need… more ›

  • if loving you is thong, i don’t wanna be white

    Just saw a deadline for May 12th and couldn’t remember if that was in the future or the past. Thankfully I still have a few more days. With the semester winding down—reminder: I’ve been teaching 5 courses (3 preps) on… more ›

  • Let this latte pass from my lips

    I don’t want to be one of those disaffected middle-aged men who wear baseball caps pulled down low on the brow to hide the graying hair at the temples and wrinkles around the eyes. Those men exude activity and vitality… more ›