Saint Patrick’s day faux pas: Ordering a ‘Black and Tan’
Image by vmiramontes via Flickr Learned this one the hard way the other night. Out at the pub in honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, I found myself unable to choose between a pint of Guinness or the house...
View ArticleThe Apocalypse Will Be Beige
Image by Brian U via Flickr I blew a tire in Orange County the other day. It exploded going 85 on I-5, leaving me stranded for several hours at a freeway adjacent mini-mall. It was fairly a harrowing...
View ArticleHunger Striking for Dollars: Social Justice Does the Dew
As fellow True/Slanter Matt Taibbi has astutely pointed out in the past few weeks, New York Times columnist David Brooks is an elite-gargling wind bag — a powerful enabler of the sociopathic greed of...
View ArticleDana White Needs to Apologize to Anderson Silva
Image by AFP via Daylife After reading all the fallout on Yahoo! Sports from the Anderson Silva/Demien Maia fight, about how Silva is a disgrace to mixed martial arts and how UFC fuhrer Dana White is...
View ArticleOn the persistant rumors of FEMA camps
Image by soylentgreen23 via Flickr A strange thing happened to a friend of mine the other day. She was at work when she noticed a coworker looking rather sullen in the corner of the office. She went...
View ArticleSaturday night socialist happy hour
Image via Wikipedia I went to my first socialist happy hour last Saturday. What is socialist happy hour, you ask? It was a fundraiser at a bar for the San Diego chapter of the International Socialist...
View ArticleBiggie Smalls and Thomas the Tank Engine Mashup
This is just too amazing not to post. Better than Girltalk.
View ArticleGuerilla Gum Art in LA
Some of the most interesting guerilla street art I’ve seen in quite some time — a mini-gum mural on a palm tree in Glendale. Anatomically correct too. Tasty.
View ArticleThe Advocate Stiffs Its Freelancers
Image via Wikipedia On July 3rd, 2009 a piece I wrote entitled “Mommy the Gays are Coming” was published on the GLBT magazine The Advocate’s website. The piece detailed the major advances in gay...
View ArticleLife Without Health Insurance
Image via Wikipedia A few weeks ago I took a trip with my girlfriend to lovely, lovely Julian, California — a lovely little mountain town where there are lovely, lovely wine tastings and just the most...
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