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Today is International Workers’ Day, a public holiday in many countries that aren’t the United States. In honor of this day, I took the day off work. I realize this is something of a luxury. One hundred years ago, workers wouldn’t have been able to take “vacation time” off. They also wouldn’t have had a [...]
Today is the first day of African-American History Month. It’s also the day the world learned that Don Cornelius, the creator and most famous host of Soul Train, committed suicide. I hadn’t thought about Cornelius in ages, but Soul Train was huge for us kids of the ’70s and ’80s. I’m about as Caucasian as [...]
The best results I’ve seen of yesterday’s “internet blackout” to protest SOPA and PIPA? The Oatmeal’s brilliant anti-SOPA/PIPA animation (featuring a koala and a goat having sexy times) got mainstream news coverage and it appears that the blackout actually had a positive effect in turning more people (including politicians) against SOPA and PIPA. Of course, correlation [...]
Tomorrow, I will be joining the protest against SOPA and PIPA by having this website go dark. If you have a WordPress site, you too can go dark using this Go Dark plugin. For some excellent coverage on the heinous SOPA and PIPA bills, check out Boing Boing.
My father had major surgery on Wednesday. There were some concerns with this. My father has COPD, and surgeons really don’t like to put COPD patients under with general anesthesia. My father needed to have this surgery done, and his heart was strong enough to clear him for the surgery, but there was still a [...]
GLAAD has declared today, October 20, as Spirit Day, a day for people of all sexual orientations to show support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth and to show support against bullying. I’m heterosexual, but I have many people in my life of various orientations who I love dearly. And know people who have [...]
Troy Anthony Davis was executed in the state of Georgia minutes ago. I wish I knew more about his case, but I don’t. I do know that there was sufficient doubt about his guilt to delay his execution until the U.S. Supreme Court denied his appeal. What I know for certain is this: I truly don’t [...]
