Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.