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Censorship? Surely there are few things more revealing of a reactionary mindset, some would hasten to assure me. Why, censorship can be identified with all the cruelest dictatorships, the most oppressive regimes, the most hardcore religious fundamentalists, etc. This is indeed true.

It has been two weeks now since Japan was hit by its worst crisis in over sixty years. Though eastern and northern Honshu are still experiencing aftershocks on a...

I have a friend in Sendai who is writing amazing things about her experience. This is the most inspiring thing I've read since this whole thing happened a week...

He looks harmless but he's pretty badass!

In honor of Oscar Night, which has just passed, and for all the newcomers, I reprint this, my first ever Live from The Chicago Municipal Opera House, bequeathed to the...

Well, I missed Valentine's Day by a bit, but here is some poetry and artwork of mine on the theme of eternal love. More specifically, both song and image...

About the name. It has nothing to do with the color of her nose, her mouth, her feet, or her eyes (which happen to be a deep burgundy, in...

"My own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." -J.B.S. Haldane, geneticist and evolutionary biologist Let's imagine a world...

Chances are good that you've never heard of Cambridge, Ohio. It's a tiny hamlet located in eastern Ohio, near the West Virginia border, that happens to be my ancestral...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! - Percy Bysshe Shelley Am I the only one that's not crazy here? - Kanye West,...