Why gay rights is one of the most important issues going right now. It’s not just a fight for equality, it’s a fight against fascism:
No different than the many stories like this – Pakistani couple face death by stoning threat after conviction for adultery – or American lynchings.
Yet when you see a video of the [...]
Let’s imagine for a moment what would happen if something like this could be said about someone in Obama’s family:
George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation [...]
Dan Brown writes at a third grade level. That also doesn’t matter. All of the reviewers making fun of Dan Brown’s writing are overlooking the main purpose of a Dan Brown novel – the subject. The Lost Symbol is a seriously transgressive book, as was The Da Vinci Code. Putting aside the reality of the [...]
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“Inception” was fucking incredible, but not entirely what I was hoping for. I was hoping for more of a “Matrix”-style exploration of “What is reality?” – if dreams are as tactile as reality, then maybe reality is no different than a dream. The movie does that somewhat, but the [...]
A must-watch about the WikiLeaks release on Democracy Now:
We host a roundtable discussion with independent British journalist Stephen Grey; Pentagon Papers whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg; former State Department official in Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh; independent journalist Rick Rowley; and investigative historian Gareth Porter.
Democracy Now is why the web was invented.
Just received an email from a reader saying that he wanted to put his review of my novel up on Amazon, but he chose not to, so as to not alienate potential readers of his own books. So I’m posting it here. He titled it “A Wake-Up Call.”
If you’re not a death-cult end-of-days [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg:
Palin has this week argued vociferously against the building of a mosque near the site of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. She calls the idea of a mosque there a provocation. But it is her opposition to the building of a mosque that is provocative. The organization that hopes to build [...]
Strangely enough, since I just bought an iPad, this may be the last book I ever buy in print:
I’m perfectly aware of this edition. I haven’t actually read it yet, as I didn’t want anything from this book to make it into my own, though I’m sure there are parallels, as my book’s also [...]
Everyone else is doing this, so:
I write like
David Foster Wallace
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I put in the first chapter of TABOTD. I actually did this last week, and it came up as Dan Brown. I was too ashamed to post it then, and just tried again.
I like Dan Brown, [...]