Category: politics

• Gay for Democracy

  Mar 7

  I wonder if I’ll ever post to this blog again. I wonder if my days will ever stop being so damned full of foolishness and nonsense and incessant busywork. I… more ›

• Fidelidad

  Feb 19

  Just let me say amid the shouts of self-congratulatory glee across DC and Miami today: the problem with Cuba has never been Fidel Castro. Cuba’s problem has never had anything… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday

  Nov 24

  Today is Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan. After (only) two years in Japan I still have no idea what that means or what is celebrated. But I was always thankful… more ›

• American Justice/Global Injustice, or Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

  Oct 9

  I just finished reading two articles from the IHT: German claiming CIA torture loses final appeal and 40 years after Che’s death, his image is a battleground after doing some… more ›

• Remembrance

  Oct 8

  One of the many blemishes part of Putin’s blemished legacy, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered a year ago. more ›

• What there is to learn

  Sep 27

  If nirvana is reached only after the extinguishing of desire, which, of course, includes the desire not to desire, because desire causes suffering, which defines the life of samsara, yet… more ›

• Required Reading (definitely though with love)

  Jul 3

  This Independence Day it’s important for us Americans to finally get it through our thick heads that there is a fundamental, essential difference between nationalism and patriotism. And that neither… more ›

• Required Reading (definitely though with love)

  Jul 3

  This Independence Day it’s important for us Americans to finally get it through our thick heads that there is a fundamental, essential difference between nationalism and patriotism. And that neither… more ›

• Minority Report, or Little Frankie’s Big Gay Dallas Election, Part 2

  Jun 19

  Here’s the link if you want to see the anti-homo political promo promising a Starf*cks of one’s own … unless you take it up the ass. As if living through… more ›

• Minority Report, or Little Frankie’s Big Gay Dallas Election, Part 2

  Jun 19

  Here’s the link if you want to see the anti-homo political promo promising a Starf*cks of one’s own … unless you take it up the ass. As if living through… more ›