One of my earliest interests in political activism was environmental issues.  For over two decades I’ve listened as everyone from my dad to presidential candidates insist that global climate change is a hoax.  “There is no such thing,” they say, “and even if there is, it has nothing to do with human beings.” I’m likely…

One of my earliest interests in political activism was environmental issues.  For over two decades I’ve listened as everyone from my dad to presidential candidates insist that global climate change is a hoax.  “There is no such thing,” they say, “and even if there is, it has nothing to do with human beings.” I’m likely…

Yesterday, I wrote a short rant on my Facebook wall: I really can’t say this loudly or aggressively enough: people who take photographs of children who have been beaten and raped, and post them as sappy little calls to action that just happen to link back to their facebook pages, are doing nothing more than…

Click here to sign and share the petition demanding that Rep. John Fleming resign his position immediately for reasons of irredeemable corruption. Among my many methods of trying to bring positive change to the world, I’ve started following the social media feeds of various congresspeople and politicians, and firing back at them when I see…

Click here to sign and share the petition demanding that Rep. John Fleming resign his position immediately for reasons of irredeemable corruption. Among my many methods of trying to bring positive change to the world, I’ve started following the social media feeds of various congresspeople and politicians, and firing back at them when I see…

This started out as a conversation on a social media site regarding universal health care. I want to be clear that I’m not “attacking” anyone I was talking to, or any of that…just acknowledging that the root of this video lies with a couple of conversations. In the first, a friend of a friend (and…

This started out as a conversation on a social media site regarding universal health care. I want to be clear that I’m not “attacking” anyone I was talking to, or any of that…just acknowledging that the root of this video lies with a couple of conversations. In the first, a friend of a friend (and…

What Am I? Date: 2012-03-25 Source: lowgenius.net Original Text Pigeonholed A dear friend of mine asked me a question today that I think might help provide some genuine answers not only to who I am, but to what’s gone wrong with our political discourse. After constructing my answer on Facebook, I decided to blog it.…

I think I’m figuring out why I have such trouble with certain social aspects. Consider Milgram’s experiments on authority – in a nutshell, test subjects were induced to give what they believed to be highly painful (and if they were real, potentially fatal) electric shocks to “students” who answered questions improperly. Even when the “students”…

I think I’m figuring out why I have such trouble with certain social aspects. Consider Milgram’s experiments on authority – in a nutshell, test subjects were induced to give what they believed to be highly painful (and if they were real, potentially fatal) electric shocks to “students” who answered questions improperly. Even when the “students”…