“White men from prosperous families grow up with the expectation that our voices will be heard. We expect politicians and professors to listen to us and respond to our concerns. We expect public solutions to our problems. And when we’re hurting, the discrepancy between what we’ve been led to believe is our birthright and what […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
On Flunking a Nice Boy Out of School
A mimeograph of John Ciardi’s poem was waiting on each boy’s desk as we took our seats for the first class on the first day of 7th grade at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy. I nearly fainted. Amazingly, my mother kept the sheet of paper all these years. RIP, Wendell Hall: […]
Stryker’s War
I’ve boasted before about how Sam Raimi directed the nintendo commercial I was in, but it wasn’t the only time we were both involved in a production. He and I both starred in a movie! Well, I had one line. And he plays a villainous hippy in a bad wig. And it wasn’t much of […]
suicide, expatriation, or revolt
The higher education bubble will not pop because student loan debt is not dischargeable. There are no bills in congress on the horizon to address the student loan problem. The government won’t fix it because it is making money: Not only are student loans not a burden on the federal government, they’re a good investment. […]
Ethiopia: Eid in Addis Ababa
Eid in Addis Ababa from Raggamuslims’ Weblog
Creeping Sharia
Now that Barack Obama has been reelected, we can expect more and more creeping sharia in the USA. Look, it creepeth already: Creep Creep creep Creeeep
Somatotypology, Craniometry and other detritus
KakNgah came home the other day asking about ectomorphic body types. Do you know about this? I’d never heard of such a thing. Apparently her teacher took some time out of class to tell the students about the Three Body Types of Man, ectomorphic (tall and thin), endomorphic (short and chubby), and mesomorphic (the ideal […]
Country Ghetto Palm
Ailanthus was sold in nurseries across the country as the Tree-of-Heaven for many years, before its invasive qualities were recognized. People planted them as ornamental trees not only in the cities but out in the rural areas as well. And so it turned out that when my parents left Detroit to get in to organic […]