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Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Review

Harriet Beecher Stowe
An unsettling, harrowing read. Harriet Beecher Stowe paints vivid portraits of scenes we know to be true, but never talk about. No stone is left unturned in this cultural examination of slavery. You will feel personally liable, especially when the author takes an aside to address the reader directly.

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Fear, uncertainty, and death

Monday morning, I hopped on my bike and rode to work. I like to take Moore Avenue via Duke Street and Waterloo Street -- running more or less parallel to King, but without all the traffic. Narrow, leafy streets and cute homes with front porches welcome me as the hazy dawn breaks into full daylight. …

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Bridging the web-native gap

The line between websites and apps is becoming blurrier every day. What with entire operating systems being made with HTML5, and the recent influx of native adblockers on mobile platforms, there's all kinds of cross-pollination that is absolutely good for the industry and good for the web in …

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Strategic voting won't help you

Strategic voting is a mirage. It's like gambling, or predicting the stock market -- there's a whole industry of people trying to figure out how to game the system, and most of them fail. Progressives have been hand-wringing for the last decade about how to unite the left (without actually, you …

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