Saturday Spins: Rage Against The Machine’s The Battle of Los Angeles
This week the randomizer was in a bit of a mood and spat out an excellent record from my youth: RATM’s The Battle of Los Angeles
Tagged: activism
Fmr President Obama on Being Always Politically Woke: “You Should Get Over That Quickly”
Former President Obama caught some folks’ attention when a clip of him speaking at The Obama Foundation Summit made the rounds on social media.
Hinges & Doubts: Musings on Social Justice & Activism
The problem with being prejudiced against prejudice.
Open to the Conversation
With recent conversations about who is and who isn’t a feminist, and why, on my mind, this passage from an interview with Netta Elzie caught my eye.
Gastrodestination Portland
To the left is a meal I had in Portland, Oregon this weekend. It was not the best meal I had. But it was the gayest. (Read more at NaPP…) Burt Likko is the...
Creating Apathy by Fighting Apathy
Scott (and, by implication, Freddie) has put together a challenging retort to my arguments that most large-scale political protests are inevitably undermined by the unpreventable introduction of irrelevant issues into the protest and are thus...
Why Being a Judge Is Hard
First, since today is Good Friday, let me apoloize upfront for the disturbing nature of the case around which this post is built. Unfortunately, it serves as a compelling follow-up to the enjoyable and...
When Should Judges Defer?
Note – Will and I exchanged a few emails on judicial activism, cultural change, and the courts’ public legitimacy in the wake of the Iowa gay marriage ruling. We’ve published an edited version below:...
