Expression, unadulterated by popular opinion or commercial interests
writer, painting, liver with chronic lyme disease, gay man, looking for respectful imaginative people with whom to associate and experience life
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men of North Western European descent are created generally similar though of distinctly different value depending upon their respective assets and net worths, that they are endowed by selectively enforced federal and state laws with certain alienable Rights, that among these are Wealth, Acquisition and the pursuit of Acclaim.
If we're so smart, why can't human beings try to understand how we are evolving instead of pretending we're the crowning glory of creation?
Lesbian and gay people don't have to have similar hobbies, transgender and bisexual people don't have to have the same life experiences, for all of us to be cemented together by history and by the obligation we all have to keep history from repeating itself.
“Funny” images like the one above are springing up all over the Internet. An examination of the parallels between Donald […]
Reviewing my Facebook timeline this morning, I’m struck by how the attacks on Paris have made us, or revealed how […]
I used to love taking all-day urban hikes through the neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. The last one was in April of […]
Yesterday morning, I had a surreal experience that has happened only a handful of times throughout my life. After waking […]
The news media shares responsibility for mass shootings.
This has been a whirlwind of a week, as I eagerly awaited the third disappointing apocalypse of my life. The […]
I was born in 1978. This technically, arguably, makes me a part of Generation X. I never identified with being […]
I seem to you to seek a new disaster every day
You deem me due to clean my view and be at peace and lay
I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way and say
I've been getting along for long before you came into the play
If there was a better way to go, then it would find me
I can't help it; the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me
Or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it
I'm an extraordinary machine
-Fiona Apple
Are people with longer hair more sensitive and intuitive?
Meet Nammu. When my sister saw this, she thought I had invented a “lizard alien” from my imagination. “But why […]
Bill Maher’s groundbreaking Politically Incorrect premiered on Comedy Central in 1993, and then moved to the mainstream ABC television network in […]
Amazon's 'customer obsession' sounds like a noble cause, but don't be fooled: Amazon's obsessed with profits, not your interests.
Years ago, I wrote a commentary for Advocate.com that was intensely personal, created in a time of personal crisis. I had just […]
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