Father Christmas

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Glenn Shadix might be more famous for his role as Otho in Beetlejuice, but we'll always remember him as Father…

[This essay was given as a talk at SUNY Buffalo, 28 January 2010, the day after Howard Zinn's death. I have left…

It is hard to read of a young man, essentially homeless, spending Christmas alone in a games store and not feel a…