Archive for March, 2009
Are lots of teens really ’sexting’?
Published March 26, 2009
Remember “wilding” — the homicidal hellraising that poor kids of color were alleged to be doing in Central Park? It turned out to be an invention of some journalist or cop — a name for racist anxieties about invasions by the Other into a perceived redoubt of “civilized” (read: white) New York City.
“Sexting” may be [...]
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19,000?
Published March 20, 2009
That’s the number of minors I said — in last Saturday’s talk — were on sex offender registries nationally. But the statistic kept bothering me. To say the least, it seemed high, even if it included (as the source indicated) those people who were no longer minors but were under the age of consent when [...]
Not Buying It Redux: Brian Lehrer Live
Published March 20, 2009
I had an interesting conversation with WNYC radio’s Brian Lehrer the other night on his TV show. Among other things, we chatted about my recent Salon.com piece, The Case Against Thrift, and about how life has changed since Paul’s and my blithe self-imposed parsimony of 2004.
I’m still thinking about that piece, and why I’m [...]
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Kids, Sex, and the State
Published March 19, 2009
The San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair was thrilling: dogs, bicycles, Yiddish, situationists, Wobblies, fat old naked guy activists, Celtic anarcho-syndicalist rap music, vegan pizza, DIY everything.
And lotsa speakers, including me.
You can hear my talk, given Saturday March 14, here. It was recorded by Indybay.org, a “radical news site where every reader can also be a [...]
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Anarchists Book Fair
Published March 5, 2009
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area the weekend of March 14-15, come to the Anarchist Book Fair, a grand festival of radicals of every stripe organized by Joey Cain, the brilliant independent bookseller, historian, and archivist of all things queer, left, and utopian.
I’ll be talking about Kids, Sex, and the State — and [...]
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Greed Pays
Published March 5, 2009
Suddenly we’ve noticed that John Thain’s $35,000 commode was flushing directly in our faces.
But our affections for the exorbitantly successful have waxed and waned.