Taxes are good for you

I’m combining two posts that are related. Rachel is talking about the recent election of Deval Patrick in Massachusetts. Someone asked a group of Asians, Latinos, Whites, and African Americans to name their biggest concerns. Education, crime, jobs, and...

Democracy and Hip-hop, a Manifesto

I don’t know if they’d call it a manifesto, but what the folks at Democracy and Hip-hop have laid down certainly reads like one. Let me say at the outset that this is the type of critical work that we need to be creating and fighting about. This is the...

Did You Know that Somebody OWNS THE MOON?

Ok.  I was checking out an interview with Minister Faust.  Faust, wrote one of the most original pieces of science fiction that I’d read in the past few years in The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, and given that he’s got a new book coming...

NYPD Surge Drill (You Tube)

(Updated 12.15.06) Check out this video: (I removed the Youtube video because Firefox 2.0 users and Safari users had trouble.) This one may be more representative. Check it out as well. The relationship between police and citizens in urban spaces with large non-white...