Battlestar Galactica, aka Gender Equality in Space

I finished watching Battlestar Galactica 4.0 a couple days ago. (I’m not watching the current broadcast, I really only see it on dvd.) And I have to say — this is my feminism. This is my humanism.
The world of BSG seems to be more-or-less evenly populated by men and women. In [...]

2009 Blog for Choice

I have two kids. My partner and I adopted them both, together.
Our son, M, was a local adoption. The story is not a secret in local circles. Many people — friends and family — ended up playing parts in it. We have continuing contact with his birth parents. His adoption [...]

Inaugural Address, January 20th, 2009

Text of President Barack Obama’s inaugural address on Tuesday, as prepared for delivery and released by the Presidential Inaugural Committee.
OBAMA: My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to [...]

Cool Kids #1

I have in my possession Cool Kids #1. It’s the first issue of the four-issue series of minicomics, written by myself with art by Sean Lynch.

Cool Kids is the story of four friends in college and their quest to feel cool despite themselves. Issue one, “Lit,” is an eight-page half-size comic, black and [...]

I’m not an early adopter, but . . .

I’m not an early adopter. I’m really not. I don’t want new tech because it’s new. I don’t buy new tech and then figure out what I can do with it. I don’t follow bleeding edge advances.
What I am is — I’m a solid alpha user. I want the tech [...]

Twilight

Catherine Hardwicke knows that adolescence is not pedestrian. She and Nikki Reed made Thirteen a disturbing drama that jolts you into horrified laughter. Adolescence is selfish, self-absorbed, and can be self-destructive. The chemical changes in the brain in teenagers leads to greater risk, to impossibly bad decision-making. Even friendship in teenagers [...]