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Congratulations, Toronto!

• May 27, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Bigotry, Civil Rights, DOMA, Day of Decision - Toronto, Defense of Marriage Act, Election, Elections, Gay, Hate, Hope, Human Rights, Human Rights Crimes, Jim Crow, Lesbian, Prop 8, Public Discourse, Rhetoric, Toronto, Transgender, civilization, politics
Tags: Barack Obama, Bigotry, Civil Rights, civilization, Discrimination, Gay, Gay Marriage, Human Rights, Jim Crow, Lesbian, morality, politics, Prop 8, Rhetoric, US election, values

Having It Both Ways

• May 18, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Accountability, Barack Obama, Bush/Cheney, GOP, International Criminal Court, Leahy, Media, Public Discourse, Rhetoric, Semantics, Truth Commission, War Crimes, civilization, prisons
Tags: Barack Obama, Bush-Cheney Truth Commission, Bush/Cheney, civilization, critical-thinking, Human Rights, Leahy, morality, politics, prison policy, prisons, Public Discourse, Rhetoric, values

Art, Schmart

• March 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Arts, Arts Education, Barack Obama, Bigotry, DOMA, Defense of Marriage Act, Election, Elections, Federal Budget, Gay, Hate, Hope, Human Rights, Immigration, Lesbian, National Debt, Public Discourse, Rhetoric, Rick Warren, Wall Street, civilization, politics
Tags: Arts, Arts Education, Barack Obama, Bigotry, Bush/Cheney, civilization, Discrimination, Federal Budget, Gay Marriage, hate-speech, morality, politics, Public Discourse, Rhetoric, Taxes, US election

Jim Crow Gone Gay

• November 12, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in Bigotry, Civil Rights, Election, Gay, Hate, Jim Grow, Lesbian, Prop 8, Public Discourse, Rhetoric, Transgender, civilization, politics
Tags: Civil Rights, civilization, Discrimination, Elections, Gay, Gay Marriage, Hate, Jim Crow, Lesbian, Prop 8, Transgender

Taxes Buy Civilization

• October 11, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in National Debt, Public Discourse, Rhetoric, Sarah Palin, Supporting Our Troops, Taxes, Wall Street, civilization, politics
Tags: Bush, infrastructure, Add new tag, Taxes, Palin, civilization, Public Discourse

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The Drifts, my novel coming soon! November 23, 2009
Here’s the catalog description of the novel I’ve written which will be published in Spring 2010 by Coach House. The Drifts a novel by Thom Vernon Night is falling, and so is the snow. As a blizzard buries the ground, it uncovers the resentments, hopes and aches of a small town in northeastern Arkansas, where, like in any [...]
Array November 4, 2009
Well, another day of discriminatory legislation passed yesterday. We did win a couple of small victories in Washington State and elsewhere. But all in all my sense is that we’re just going to continue batting our civil rights back and forth. The amount of energy, the tremendous resources and heart [...]