Google, Twitter, Privacy, Censorship and Why Corporations Really Don’t care About You

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Who’s Internet? Our Internet! Who’s Google! Their Google. And they can do anything they want with it.

Martin Luther King Day and Me

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I’ve written a ton about class and race over the past year. It’s important for us to remember something today at the end of Martin Luther King Day. Some people believe it’s not a big deal to have a day off today.  But, I mean, we are doing it for a black civil rights leader. … Read more

The Occupation Will Be Televised, Part 2: I was Wrong

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This isn’t something that is going to start and then stop, a small hiccup that will end when the right breathing is found. This is the direct result of a broken system, like a busted engine, the oil leaking out.

Who Picks up Deer Shit?

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Surprisingly, this is an existential l question.

Why Anthony Weiner Matters.

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The spectacle of being an American.

Again. A short story by Jarvis Slacks

I’ve only felt that once and I’m so afraid, at night, I’m afraid I’ll never feel it again. At night, I think about how I’ll never feel it again and I feel so sad.

Utility

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You can’t force us to use your product. You have to make us want to use it.

Where We Live.

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The Bricks, the dirt. That is us.

About Memes.

I’ve been trying to understand Memes lately.  It isn’t an easy task, but I think I’m halfway there.  Whenever I don’t understand something, something that seems like it is important to my life, I tend to spend an enormous amount of my time trying to figure it out, trying to make sure that I have … Read more

The End of Real Stories.

The oil rig that sank in the Gulf Coast. That’s a real story. It is a real problem and it has real consequences. The Arizona mess where the state has turned into a totalitarian regime? That’s a real story. Some ass lost his cellphone and some other ass grabbed it and stole it to another ass and then the asses job publish a story about it? NOT A STORY!

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