Construction Workers Are Not Disposable
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the news these last few weeks, things are pretty fucked up. Not …
Category Archives: Journal
From AIDS to Corona, Silence=Death
In his book The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, American art critic Hal …
If fear is their lifeblood, why didn’t Trump and the Republican Party embrace the Coronavirus?
Do you remember the migrant caravans? How can you not, right? You barely escaped with your life! In 2018 and …
If Only Elizabeth Warren Would Sit Down and Shut Up — Then She Would Be Perfect!
Telemachus is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer’s Odyssey. The first four books of the Odyssey focus on …
When Dave Chappelle tried to make a room full of people laugh at me, it backfired, and they laughed at him. But I’m not laughing.
Yesterday, I had lunch with a good friend at a restaurant in New York that shares a bathroom with the …
Why We Need To Put Pizzazz in Impeachment (and Rebuild America’s Educational System)
Shortly after the world changed on November 8, 2016, one of my no-longer-friends enthusiastically declared that we finally had a …
Tarantino’s Love Letter to Trump
During his 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump recycled a campaign slogan used several times before (by Ronald Reagan and Bill …
How Madonna Became Gaga (and Gaga Became Stefani)
In 2010, Camille Paglia wrote an essay for The Sunday Times entitled “What’s Sex Got To Do With It?” Despite …
Not Ready to Make Nice
I was told not to write this. I was told not to “pick a fight.” I was told to be …
“Mom, I am a rich man.”
I have daddy issues. My father was detached and disinterested (at best) for most of my childhood and adolescence before …
