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Elvis was a hero to most/But he never meant [radio edit] to me you see/Straight up racist/that sucker was Simple and plain/Mother [radio edit] him and John Wayne… -Chuck D, Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” If the 2016[…]

Well, I’ve seen some old friends sort-of die/or just turn into whatever must have been inside them/whatever we had once in common/we grew up, we left home/we don’t think that way no more/turn around/turn the[…]

It sure sounds funny when you say his name like that.  -For Squirrels, “Mighty KC” With the dawn of the Trump America, I’ve been even more nostalgic than usual. But as I revised my book[…]

Brother, did you forget your name?/Did you lose it on the wall/Playin’ tic-tac-toe?/Yo, check the diagonal/Three million gone/Come on/Cause they’re counting backwards to zero. -Zack de la Rocha, Rage Against the Machine, “Freedom” I’m about to[…]

My friend Katie talks at length about dressing professionally, but today I’m just going to riff a little about my own attire. It was, shockingly, a point of discussion at work once a few years[…]

“But Christopher M. Johnson suggests, in his study of the ad hominem, that “given our intellectual limitations and the pressures we are faced with to make decisions in the absence of final or compelling evidence,[…]

Nothing’s so loud/as hearing when we lie/the truth is not kind/and you’ve said neither am I -Glen Phillips, Toad the Wet Sprocket, “All I Want” I hate to be a “Not My President” person, as[…]

So this is interesting. As a person who wouldn’t use that particular word to describe my own experiences, as much as I respect it, I want to instead of ranting about how people act offer[…]

For anyone reading this who doesn’t know, I teach a class every winter term at Miami on the topic of digital identity. It changed departments with me, but the core concepts are the same, and[…]