People will try to connect a recent suspension from school over marijuana possession to Trayvon Martin’s murder. Those people are desperate to make us forget that an unarmed, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was stalked and murdered by a paranoid, armed racist named George Michael Zimmerman, and that his murder has NOTHING to do with the school suspension. NOTHING.

People will try to connect a recent suspension from school over marijuana possession to Trayvon Martin’s murder. Those people are desperate to make us forget that an unarmed, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was stalked and murdered by a paranoid, armed racist named George Michael Zimmerman, and that his murder has NOTHING to do with the school […]

Stop Complaining about “Fake Geek Girls,” it means we’ve succeeded

This is an expanded version of something I posted on facebook… Forbes has an article this week titled, “Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away” and while I understand the reasons behind the threads of resentment running through the article, that sentiment is colossally missing the point. The author spends much of the piece obsessing […]

Here’s a video of Jon Stewart interviewing Quentin Tarantino about Pulp Fiction before either of them were household names. Surprisingly, Jon Stewart didn’t know who Sergio Leone was. Not surprisingly, Tarantino was singing the praises of Pam Grier as an actress (for the record, I still think Jackie Brown was Tarantino’s best work, and the […]

The Internet Indians – The Fight for Amazonia – Al Jazeera English

The Internet Indians – The Fight for Amazonia – Al Jazeera English The Internet really does serve as a tool for empowering people who never would have been able to speak for themselves before. It gives a voice to those who would have had to rely on others to speak for them.