Not-yet-published pieces, stories, essays, rants, and random strangenesses

I wrote the following piece for the blog BLT Is Not Just a Sandwich, and I’ve already gotten myself into trouble over it. I’ll reprint...

The story of Christmas is the story of assimilation. Sorry to put it so nakedly, but it’s true. Wrapped up in this holiday, this holy...

The diminutive suffix “-ish” to denote approximation is just plain lovely. Its attachment to time, as in “How about if we meet 4:00ish?”,...

I’m publishing this while the votes are still coming in, before we know what’s happened. I’ve found a number of people online are sharing...

I know, I know. You’re as tired of politics as I am. I tend to watch television with my DVR remote in hand, and I always speed through...

Since I seem to be devoid of new ideas, or too pressed with work and life to spend much time writing and working on the long-promised Big...

Floriduh is doing one thing right: They’re helping more people vote by offering absentee voting to everyone, not just those who are...

The National Park Service is considering giving back the southern half, which was confiscated from the Indian tribe during World War II....

Following years of controversy, German dignitaries this week dedicated a memorial to the tens of thousands of gays and lesbians [The...

My activist days are pretty much behind me. I am no less passionate about my politics, but I am much less apt to do much about them...

Satan’s plan to make uptight straight people “really uncomfortable” working out “fabulously,” say Bay Area gays by Mark Morford, SF Gate...

By Bill Harlan, Rapid City Journal Friday, December 21, 2007 Political activist Russell Means, a founder of the American Indian...

I am pleased to announce that The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation It is a completely new translation of the Bible from...

For the last week, thousands of Burmese monks have marched against the repressive Burmese military regime in cities across that nation....

When my brother enticed my mother to move down to Florida, he told her that Cape Canaveral was chosen as the NASA launch site because...

by SONYAH FATAH | The Globe and Mail August 11, 2007 THIMPHU, BHUTAN — Monarchies have inspired bloody revolutions, internal dissent and...

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a Communist. Archbishop...