November 26, 2013

Where the Left Gets it Right (and Wrong)

On November 15, 2012 a group of Occupy Wall Street activists, led by Andrew Ross, professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, started Rolling Jubilee, an effort to raise money to abolish debt. While the initial goal was to raise...

September 30, 2013

The Surrealism of the Bullet

Andre Breton, artist and author of The Surrealist Manifesto, once said that the simplest act of surrealist art would be to go out into the street with a revolver and start shooting indiscriminately into the crowd. Despite violent crime as a whol...

September 16, 2013

Trouble in Dirty Water

It's 5:30 PM on a Monday at Waterbury Hospital and I am one of the technicians who have been asked to attend a special meeting with the CEO of the hospital, Darlene Stromstad. We meet in the Bizzozero Conference Center. There are enough chairs for ab...

September 2, 2013

No Justice, No Peace... Ever

In the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict and the ensuing protests, one shout can be heard above the others: "No Justice, No Peace." The Huffington Post's Charles Howard went so far as to title his column after this rather commonplace phr...