Category: politics

• The Necessity of Contingency: On what is not inevitable, or party like it’s 1974

  Jan 19

  In 1972 American voters overwhelmingly reelected Richard Nixon. That election remains one of the biggest, most decisive landslide victories in US history. Nixon garnered 520 electoral votes to Democrat candidate… more ›

• The R-Word

  Nov 14

  A couple of weeks ago I commemorated a girl who died in a car accident forty years ago when she was ten years old. We were friends. The car was… more ›

• Rockin’ in the Cheap World: On the Limits of Rhetoric at the DNC

  Aug 28

  I both love and hate rhetoric. The way it’s taught in philosophy departments, rhetoric and sophistry are the two great foes of philosophy. But in poetry and literature, there’s something… more ›

• World AIDS Day

  Dec 1

  Instead of a day without art, I’d like to celebrate two of my favorite artists: David Wojnarowicz and Ron Athey. Both unapologetically queer. Both HIV+. Both demonized by fascist right-wing… more ›

• The Poet in His Labyrinth

  Nov 23

  “Criticism unfolds the possibility of freedom and is thus an invitation to action.” “Criticism tells us that we should learn to dissolve the idols, should learn to dissolve them within… more ›

• SD1-989, or Why I Cried During the Slowdive Concert

  May 7

  Slowdive Concert, Granada Theater, Dallas, April 2018 I see several concerts every year, and I recently saw Slowdive for the second time live. Near the end of the concert they… more ›

• Un-Presidented

  Feb 20

  To all you Presidents of the United States of Love this Presidents Day. And, lest we forget, the original: more ›

• Electioneering

  Dec 22

  Note: I was working on this list-cum-manifesto during the recent elections in the U.S. and found it now in my draft folder. Because of the results of that election, I… more ›

• Love Letter

  Jun 29

  I sent a love letter to the DNC this morning: After 30 years of voting almost entirely for Democratic candidates on local, state, and national ballots I will no longer… more ›

• MH17

  Jul 17

  I’ve been dreading this day for a year now: the first anniversary of when flight MH17 was shot down by thugs in eastern Ukraine with a Buk on loan from… more ›