I've sat in on a number of public meetings about ALPRs (Automated License Plate Readers) over the last several weeks, and one line that keeps coming up from the pro-ALPR side is "Well, if you don't do anything wrong you've got nothing to worry about." I'm sorry that you have the critical thinking capacity of a tapeworm, but don't force your idiocy on the rest of us. The people that "do nothing wrong" are precisely the ones who should worry most--most marginalized people just exist, and that ex...

I think I'm going to stop organizing. People want society to be a dystopian panopticon? Cool. Have at it. People want cops to deal with mental health crises? Great, be my guest. Rekindle the Hitler Youth? Hey, it's America, baby, you do you. And when people inevitably get upset and say, "why didn't you stop it? why didn't you warn us?" I'll just be like--"I did it until I ran out of energy. Where were y'all?" I am tired of fighting against scores people who earn hundreds of thousands of dollar...

I don't know when I first learned that the world is unfair, though I do have a vivid recollection of listening to the Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want" on my Fisher-Price turntable at 3 years old. But I think a better way to ask this is, "when did I first realize how grossly unjust society is?" I think I had a pretty keen awareness of it in elementary school. My K-5 years were during the Reagan administration (and the first two years of Bush). In 4th grade, Tiananmen Square h...

So, as I started this blog, and in turn started the #100Days writing challenge, I decided that there would be days where I didn't know what to write. So I went on to ChatGPT and asked it to spit out 365 blog prompts based on what it knew about me. If I open up Standard Notes at 9 PM and suddenly realize that I have no idea what I'm going to write about-ta da! Blog prompts. So, the first blog prompt for today was a dud. "What do you want people to feel when they read your writing?" I want people...

Why did I start this blog, really? Well, I have ADHD. I mean, I have a lot of things--bipolar I, PTSD, ADHD, a cornucopia of physical health issues that compound my mental health issues, and the world is on fire and... but basically, I have ADHD. And with this ADHD, I like to start things. I start so many things. And I never see them through. Well, this is about change. This is about a new me. A mature me. A me that finishes things. A me that sees things through. Just kidding, there's no grow...

So, I guess I'm starting this thing. #100Days. Let's go. I'm going to start with a little free-write, trying to keep my fingers typing and not edit what I am saying. Just keep typing and see what empties out. It's late in the evening, and it's been a long week, with a long day to end the week, and my creative juices are completely spent. I'm still going to try, in earnest, to write for a solid 25 minutes and then publish this thing, just to get the ball rolling. As you may see on my bio, I'm a ...

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