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Real Americans: A Rant. 28 Apr 2011 | 04:29 am
So the president released his birth certificate. The extra-special long-form one that even Orly Taitz wanted him to release. Unfortunately, this will not please his "critics" who don't think he's Amer...
Hey there 28 Apr 2011 | 04:21 am
Poor old neglected blogger, a relic of my life in the aughts. I've been posting over at tumblr now, if you're interested. I like the social networking aspects of tumblr, but I must say I think blogger...
I have a question for fans of the “Hipster Indian” look. 15 Nov 2010 | 04:57 am
(This is a more thought-out and in-depth version of a post I first put up on Tumblr this morning.) If the reason that you feel the need to dress this way is just that you “appreciate the culture” and...
Happy Halloween, Bitches! 10 Nov 2010 | 11:48 am
Welcome to Valhalla, motherfuckers.
I stayed up all night reading Octavia Butler's "Kindred" 21 Oct 2010 | 05:15 am
And I’m not even tired. Holy shit, that’s a good book. It was very good at making me think about - well, not so much the reality of slavery, because I’m sure no mere book would be enough to convey th...
Yes, I am a Muslim-American 25 Aug 2010 | 02:12 am
(eds note: My father, who has been increasingly horrified by the growing tide of bigotry apparent on the nightly news lately, emailed me this last night and asked if I would post it on my blog. Of cou...
How little things have changed. 23 Aug 2010 | 12:43 pm
It's really depressing, but not entirely shocking, to see how little things have changed since this speech was given.
It's not us and them. It's just us. 17 Aug 2010 | 05:20 pm
The hysteria surrounding the not-a-mosque, not-at-Ground Zero interfaith community center that an Islamic group wants to build in Manhattan has gone on longer that even I thought it ever would. The o...
Chuchu the sock monkey. 14 Aug 2010 | 06:02 pm
Why yes, I did just spend the last 10 hours or so making two socks into a monkey, why do you ask? Discoveries along my journey across the sock monkey learning curve: use thicker socks, use longer soc...
A challenge. 3 Aug 2010 | 11:27 am
I don't know what I was thinking. I ventured into the comment sections of this and this (much better) article on the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" (which is neither at Ground Zero nor a masjid) and I...
