Victory Mosque (08/10)
A multicultural
coalition should rise up in support of the Islamic Center in New York
City. There ought to be a million Muslim march, with everyone wearing
ribbons saying, 'we are all Muslims.'
|
Non-Starters (08/09)
What is common to America's healthcare
crisis and the
crisis in the Middle East is that the
most elegant solutions are considered "non-starters." |
Revolution Iran Redux (06/09)
It's
possible Iranians will get their revolution right this time. But
with half the population under 30, let's hope they don't get fooled
again. |
Honkeyphobia (07/09)
A
stupid encounter between a black Harvard professor and a white
Cambridge police sergeant may have shined a
light on a common but rarely discussed phenomenon -- honkeyphobia. |
Afrophobia (1976)
Let's not beat around the bush. We are
talking about white people who
have an irrational fear of black people. |
Racial Baggage (04/09)
Like
a lot of people, I lug around a certain amount of racial baggage as a
result of my previous interactions with people of other ethnic groups.
|
Oybama (03/08)
Dear
Mom and Dad, I really wouldn't vote for Hitler, as you suggested, when
I suggested
you cut Barack Obama some slack for the comments his pastor made, and
for Obama's subsequent speech on race.
|
Spunky Sarah (07/09)
One
thing that cannot be said about Sarah Palin is that she lacks spunk,
although people who love to hate her might turn that statement into a
sleazy punchline. |
Soccer (07/10)
This year's early second
round World Cup exit by the Yanks was but a
blip between Tiger Woods and LeBron James on the American sports
psyche, and for two reasons.
|
Carbondale
Before Dark (02/08)
An oak tree poking out of
a parking lot on the Southern
Illinois University campus in Carbondale, Illinois, is
the last vestige of the front yard of the house I grew up in from about
1952, when I was in diapers, to about 1964, when I was entering
puberty.
|
Hangin' with the Dormies (5/07)
If it weren't for young people willing
to be called traitors
and hippie scum for standing up for their beliefs, we might still be in
Vietnam. |
Have
a
Kosher
Christmas
(12/07)
How
did it come to pass that instead of
putting Christ back into Christmas, they put in Jews? |
Bob
Dylan & Paul Simon:
Slip Slidin'
Away (1999)
Thirty-two years after the "Summer of
Love," the two greatest folk rock composers of the 1960s, Bob
Dylan and Paul Simon, teamed up for a concert tour. Attention must
be paid. |
Eminem:
Menace or Minstrel? (2002)
Fans and
non-fans alike tuned in Grammy
night 2002 to watch the much-hyped duet between gay icon Elton John and
gay
basher Eminem. |
Frank
Sinatra Online (1998)
Before punching out paparazzi became
fashionable, there was Frank
Sinatra. The Chairman of the Board died May 14, 1998, but his
pugnacious spirit
lives online. |
Stick
Figure Snuff Flicks (2000)
No plot, no
moral, no redeeming
social value. Just pure, unadulterated violence... |
Fanfic
Online
(2000)
With Congress
wanting to stomp out
sex and violence in Hollywood, what are those who want MORE sex
and violence to do?
|
Snacks
Online (2000)
Why do snack
crackers and potato
chips come in as many flavors as mutual funds? For snackaholics who
think
salt is a sugar substitute, inquiring minds want to know. |
Strange
Museums Online (2000)
People will
collect anything. Anything. Beer cans, sugar packs, navel lint... |
Useless
Information Superhighway (2000)
The Internet is
called the information
superhighway. But there's also a lot of useless information online. And
proud of it!
|
Tonya
Harding Online (2000)
Harding's
virtual life is as checkered
as her real one. Scores of websites have stills from her infamous
wedding
night video, along with fake Harding porn photos.
|
Wen
Ho Lee Online (2000)
The Wen Ho Lee
spy caper has been
compared to McCarthyism, the Dreyfus affair and Richard Jewell, but
it’s
also a little like Monicagate. |
Pot
Online (1999)
Potheads are
euphoric over a new
federal study that finds marijuana may have medical benefits. Read all
about it and the movement to reform marijuana laws. |
Hypocrisy
Online
(1999)
I started out to
write this rant
defending the compassionate conservative governor of Texas, George W.
Bush,
saying he shouldn't have to answer whether he ever did cocaine... |
Globaphobia
(2000)
When did I get
so out of touch with
the revolution that I don't know the difference between the World Bank
and the World Trade Organization, much less the groups that make up the
anti-globalization movement? |
Cyber
Kosovo (1999)
While the media obsessed over
Monicagate, the Yugoslav province of
Kosovo became the latest Balkan entity to undergo a form of genocide
peculiar
to Eastern Europe known as ethnic cleansing. |
Kurds
Online (1999)
Sometimes history
reads like an endless game of musical chairs in which those who don't
get
a seat use terrorism to
unseat those who do, and those with the chairs threaten to exterminate
those without unless they give up their culture, language and/or
religion. |
Politics
Online (2000)
As a lefty used
to voting for the
lesser of two evils, which usually means Democrats like Al Gore, if the
election were held today, I'd have to vote for Republican George W.
Bush. |
Black
Power Online (1998)
Stokely
Carmichael was bad. Along with H. Rap
Brown, he led the militant "black power" wing of the 60's civil rights
movement, scaring the bejesus out of white folks and making the Rev.
Martin
Luther King Jr. seem moderate.
|
Gnutella
(2000)
An epic battle
is brewing in cyberspace. David versus Goliath. E-commerce versus
free-commerce.
And giant industries versus precocious geeks from Generation Next. |
Stanley
Kubrick
Online
(1999)
To state that Stanley Kubrick's final
film, "Eyes Wide Shut," was
controversial, would merely be redundant. Over 40 years and 13 films,
"Kubrick
movie" became synonymous with controversy. |
Starship
Titanic (1998)
"I'd rather sleep between the cheeks of
a yak's buttocks." So saith
Marsinta Drewbish, the cheeky DeskBot on the "Starship
Titanic," a stylish CD-ROM
game by "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" author Douglas Adams. |
Godzilla
Online (1998)
India set off five atom bomb tests in
1998, just as Sony's movie about a monster spawned by nuclear
fallout was coming to a theater near you. |
'You've
Got Spam' (1998)
The Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan 1998 romantic
comedy 'You've Got Mail' is not exactly your typical cyber
affair.
Here's a reality check. |
'Big
Brother' Online (2000)
Recently
I
got
addicted
to
the
live
24/7
Webcast of the TV show 'Big Brother.' I wouldn't have gotten
hooked except for Brittany, the Monica Lewinsky of
cyberspace. |
Big
Brother: George, Brittany, and the Sex Police (2000)
Dear Rockford,
Illinois: On behalf
of Recovering Voyeurs Anonymous, thank you for delivering us from
Brittany, the
Monica Lewinsky of cyberspace. |
Reality
Olympics
(2000)
What if the
media packaged the Olympics like a reality TV show. One
Olympic village, thousands of athletes, no privacy and daily challenges
in which everyone but the top three got banished... |
PCTV (1998)
Seeking to protect your family from the
corrupting influence of the boob
tube? "The
"Parents Television Council"
wants to help you practice safe TV viewing. |
Digital
Books (2000)
There's good
news for trees. While the music industry tries to block the
digitization
of music, the publishing industry is quietly
gearing
up for paperless digital books. |
Cosmetics
Online
Going to cosmetic counters and applying
colors and scents is to a
certain retro femdom what going to a sports bar and watching football
is
to a lot of men. |
Internet
World
2000
As the stock market did a dot-com death
spiral, geeks were partying
in Tinsel Town during the Spring Internet
World 2000 trade show. |
Google
As the World
Wide Haystack grows
from millions to billions of Web sites, different search portals find
wildly
different needles. I could split more metaphors, but to cut to the
bottom
line, there are search engines and then there's Google. |
Napster,
Part
1
The music
industry, as we know it, is dead. For I have seen the future and it is
Napster, the first killer computer application of the new
millennium. |
Napster,
Part
2
The more I
probed Napster, the more amazed I became by the quality and diversity
of
ripped recordings already available in MP3, and not just '60s rock and
heavy metal. |
Napster-BMG
As Napster makes
its way into a
market economy, music lovers and the music business alike are in for
some
shock therapy. |
Cookiegate!
Privacy
advocates asked Congress to
investigate a "cookie" found on a Web site funded by the White House
Office
of National Drug Control Policy. Here's why.
|
Cookie
Monster
Children
shouldn't accept candy
from strangers. So why let your computer accept "cookies" from
strangers
when you're online? |
Anarchy
Online
The mayor of
Los
Angeles has
declared war on international anarchy. |
