I walked into the NJ Peace Action annual dinner, a notebook in my hand, my head full of activism. I wanted to talk about the things I’ve noticed in America. “I’m a trained cultural theorist,” I boasted to my own mind. “I have important analyses to offer.”

It’s true; I do, as do some of the people I met there. The discussion at my table was lively. We talked about the US culture of war. We shared video clips on our camcorders and our iPhones. We ate our salmon, or chicken, or ratatouille. We listened to folk music. I felt righteous. I felt like I knew what was up. I’m no fool, I thought. I’m one of the good people.

Then Phil Donahue spoke.

I have two bosses down at the university. One of them seems just as, if not more anxious than I am. We’re cordial to each other, and he is a very nice man—don’t get me wrong—but we also seem to repel each other like the neurotic poles of two powerful magnets. It’s like a physics. [...]

I’m feeling tired tonight, run down, yawning through conversations. My eyes have been drooping all afternoon.

The great news, my blood pressure is finally coming down–thanks to the medication, I suppose. But as my friend Luke insists, it’s probably the result of a combination of changes I’ve been making.

No one ever asks for my side of the story when I tell them I don’t really celebrate Father’s Day. They just jump to assumptions, accusations, and lectures. Every year, the same: I should forgive my father. I’ll regret it when he’s dead.

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She told me she doesn’t expect me to ever make any money. Her love for me isn’t about that. That’s what she told me during one of our rides from the train station last week. She desperately wants me to let go of the feeling of failure that burns into the pit of my chest [...]

I wholly accept that the occasional bad day is part of life. However, when my day is ruined by some bottom-feeding debt collector, that just makes me snap like an angry dog for the duration. Of course, I’m blowing it out of proportion. I’m sure. One of the credit card debts I accumulated during an [...]

I’ve been watching the shock of 9/11 ripple through my culture. I’ve been reading and writing and teaching whenever and wherever I can. Things are already much worse than I thought they would be almost thirteen years after 9/11. We have conversations that we would have never had before: legitimate rape and all the other offensive war on women talking points, and the spying, and the passive acceptance of the death of privacy, and on and on.

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This is the perfect video for anyone who thinks they support the NSA spying program. Give it a chance. This video is for Obama LOVERS and HATERS.

From the 2003 Television docudrama: George Orwell–A Life in Pictures.