Most people believe that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution gave us the right of free speech. We were taught that the First Amendment granted us the right to protest things that we think are wrong, th…

This week was a very busy week. Between work and blogging about white people and the derelicts on MySpace and Twitter, I haven't had time to take pictures of my apartment. However, I did have time to take one picture o…

They say that a man isn’t a man until he has fallen in love. I don’t exactly know who “they” are, I don’t know if “they” are men or women, and I don’t know why “they” like to say things like “that.” Other than a pair o…

(For Understanding White People, Part 1, go here.) I recently took a Facebook quiz entitled “How White Are you?” and I got the result “25%”. Without even considering the sociopolitical ramifications that arise from posi…

I hung up that giant wooden clock a few months ago. It was a gift from one of my co-workers, although I don't know what the occasion was for. It's a really heavy clock that's hanging on one screw that I hope is secur…

Three unique things happened to me in the summer of 1999, but the magnitudes of their significance to my everyday life vary greatly. First, I graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree. My major has almost nothin…

Recently I found myself in a crowd standing outside of a bar waiting to get inside. This was one of those social situations that occasionally happens to everyone and no one wants to experience. No one wants to be stand…

This "man" is an imposter: http://manilajones.wordpress.com Would the real manilajones please stand up?

Last Thursday I was standing outside of Starbucks with the intent of smoking a cigarette when I realized that I had left my lighter at home. I walked over to a guy named Rodney (who coincidentally looks a lot like Rodne…