Last week, I heard my man William Upski Wimsatt speak in SF during the tour for his new book Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs. He had me at the title. Artistically and politically, I came of age in the late 90s reading Upski’s first book, called “Bomb the Suburbs” —…

(Note: This is from a longer piece I wrote for Tikkun magazine. The thinking was, when it comes to the immigrant rights movement, SB1070 and Arizona apartheid…we know what we are against, but what are we FOR? This is my contribution to the conversation, an attempt to frame our struggle…

Identity politics is an interesting thing. So last night I was the first “mostly straight” artist (the organizer’s words, not mine…but I do agree) to get invited to feature at the amazing Queer Open Mic in San Francisco. The show was amazing, with some of my favorite writers from the…

[Note: This is re-posted from my weekly spoken word video/commentary for The Progressive magazine.] That there is even any controversy over building a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan – the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque“- makes me wonder: do we Americans know the depth of our hypocrisy? Or do we…

Yep, I did it. I figured, “If I can tell terrible, usually offensive jokes to my friends and family, and no one’s punched me in the face yet…well then, I probably can tell terrible, for SURE offensive jokes to total strangers, right?” So began my career in stand-up comedy. I…