Global Crisis

Like many people, I spent some time watching great video clips of Trevor Noah's standup routines (compiled here by Vox) and laughing. I certainly enjoyed his first appearance on the Daily Show, which I happened to catch live (I don't watch the show routinely, but like many people consume clips via the internet the next day).Today, I became aware of...

On March 30th Lincoln introduced the Continental Concept, signaling an all-new full-size sedan coming next year and the future of quiet luxury. Elegant, effortlessly powerful and serene, the Continental Concept blends meticulous craftsmanship and technologies designed to create...

Premise #1: There is no way for a powerful white man to critique the public voice of women on the grounds of tone without replicating patriarchal "silencing" discourse.Premise #2: There is no appropriate way for a powerful white man to question why someone invokes the race of another powerful white man.Premise #3: Sometimes, holding...

A month or so ago, UIUC professor Susan Koshy wrote a piece on being the target of a boycott. She supports the candidacy of Steven Salaita. She's angry at the administration for their conduct. She writes (behind the paywall. I will quote as extensively as seems reasonable):For someone like me, who is inside the university and supports Salaita, the...

Principal forces student with Down syndrome to remove high school letter jacket: http://t.co/9dsd9hxZNC pic.twitter.com/WxLdUQjyaa— USA TODAY Sports (@USATODAYsports) March 27, 2015 USA Today Sports has a new piece on a boy with Down syndrome forced to remove a letter jacket. His mother had bought him the jacket, he loved it, but because he's not a...

Preamble: I make mistakesSometimes, I make mistakes. Often, those mistakes emerge from my privilege - straight, white, tenured, able-bodied, neurotypical, married, etc. I say something or do something that is exclusionary, hurtful, or simply wrong.If I'm lucky, someone calls me on...

One response to ableism, eugenic ideology, or just plain ignorance is to tout the achievements of people with disabilities. Sometimes it can veer into inspiration porn or cuteness porn, but I've long thought that there's a bigger problem. If we define the worth of an individual by what they do, and then say - look, people with disabilities can...

The 2015 Atlanta International Auto ShowLocation: Georgia World Congress Center - C Building 235 Northside Drive (next to Georgia Dome) Atlanta, GA 30313 Dates: March 25-29, 2015 TICKETS: ADULTS $10 * CHILDREN 6-12 - $5 * CHILDREN UNDER 6 - FREEhttp://www.goautoshow.com/...

I've become increasingly interested in nostalgia, especially when used as political discourse (following the scholarship of my friend Matthew Gabriele (@prof_gabriele), a professor at Virginia Tech).It reminded me of this recent essay from Andrew Potter, the editor of Ottawa Citizen, on the "Rise of Neo-Primitivism." Potter describes the "neo-primitives"...

Recently, I've seen a positive trend - Academics talking bluntly about money.Talking about money doesn't besmirch intellectual activity; rather, being paid fairly enables more and better intellectual activity.We exist in a profession in which talking about money is gauche. We're...

Ford Motor Company and Georgia Tech hosted an intimate conversation on March 24th, surrounding mobility at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.On the Panel was Renuka Gokahle, Manager EV Infrastructure & Smart Grid Technology for Ford Motor Company, Dr Bert Bras, George...

On Wednesday March 18th I left Atlanta and headed to Charleston for Fashion Week and I traveled in style I had the pleasure of driving the amazing Lexus IS 250 4-Dr Sedan.Standard Features Includes:2.5 liter V6 Engine with 204 HorsepowerSteering Wheel Mounted Paddle ShiftersDrive...

The arguments for Sheehan vs SF are a little weird. Predictions, always fraught for the Court based Monty Python: The Argument Clinicon oral arguments, are going to be even harder in this case, because the city changed their brief between cert (when SCOTUS took the case) and filing.From...

Oral arguments for Sheehan vs San Francisco will begin at the Supreme Court in a few hours (it's thesecond case of the day). It will provide the opportunity for the court to do a number of things.Here are the questions before the court:Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities...

Hi! My name is Steve and I was born electric on August 15, 2012.You highly intelligent, super savvy readers may be questioning my sanity. Or, at the very least, fact-checking. And those dubious thoughts are spot on. The above picture is me putting gas into a new kind of EV: a...

I have a new piece out today at Al Jazeera America on the upcoming Supreme Court case - Sheehan vs San Francisco. I write:Twenty-five years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities are regularly dying at the hands of police officers across the country. In just the last few weeks, four such deaths...