Ulysses is a lot of things, but the aspect that has long held me most closely is the lesson of the surrender that must come before true intimacy. For most of the book, which is partly an allegory of a hobbled, down-beaten artistic sentiment finding its way back to love…

So, the 18-year-old racist piece of shit who murdered 10 people in Buffalo a few days back was from my neck of the woods. He lived in Conklin, NY, about 9 miles down the road from where I grew up on the West Side of Binghamton. I saw his address…

The latest revelations by the January 6th Committee are both stunning and entirely predictable. Sean Hannity — a hatemongering, propagandizing shill with a fawning adoration of authoritarians, an abiding distrust of multiracial democracy, and an ego inversely proportional to his sense of ethics — was “an inside man” on the…

Here’s a quick holiday note about simple math, viral spread, and your family members who might be vulnerable to the Omicron variant, even if vaxxed and boosted: City after city and country after country are getting walloped by Omicron, leaving them shellshocked and wondering what the hell just happened. …

I’ve been focused on other work of late, kinda figuring that the politics will heat up in 2022. Right now, so much of what is happening will be dust come November that it’s not worth the effort. …

Some folks in my world seem to think that the recent uproar over Lauren Boebert’s often-repeated racist joke about Representative Ilhan Omar is much ado about nothing. I think that means they’re part of the problem. …

There’s a lot of writing already out there on yesterday’s oral arguments in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case before the Supreme Court — so I’ll focus my rage on one favorite target, Brett “Probably-Did-Rape-Her-But-That-Was-A-Long-Time-Ago” Kavanaugh. Before starting, I’ll admit that I seriously dislike that man. I loathe…

My latest trip to the United States is coming to an end. I’ll be headed back to Guatemala just before Thanksgiving to celebrate a wedding of dear friends and to reassume my watch just outside the empire’s crumbling walls. It’s been, in many ways, a wonderful trip home. I saw…

Yesterday the Washington Post ran a story indicating that, for several years, Facebook assigned the “anger emoji” five times more algorithmic weight than the “like” emoji. That choice did two things. First, it generated more actual anger in the world, given the platform’s reach of several billion users. Second, it…