Things I Wrote in Various Places
"How the Contradictions of Socialism Make Cuban Art Great," Hyperallergic, March 3, 2021
"Introducing Lamoishe & Hezbollah Schoenfeld," The Rumpus, July 23, 2019
"Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change," In These Times, March 12, 2019
"Introducing the Softest Politicians in the Bay this Week," San Francisco Examiner, September 23, 2018
"Permanent Minority Rule," San Francisco Examiner, September 9, 2018
"Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel to Argue Against Rent Control," San Francisco Examiner, August 26, 2018
"Area Lobbyist Predicts Sky to Fall," San Francisco Examiner, August 11, 2018
"London Breed Supporters Have Sketchy History Supporting Public Housing," San Francisco Examiner, July 29, 2018
"Politics is Kinda, Sometimes, Depends," San Francisco Examiner, July 14, 2018
"It's Time for the SF Police Union to Bargain," San Francisco Examiner, July 1, 2018
"A Letter to Senator Wiener about SB 827," San Francisco Examiner, June 16, 2018
"Styrofoam London," San Francisco Examiner, June 3, 2018
"What If the American Media Covered Cuba Like a Normal Place," The LA Review of Books, May 13, 2018
"Is Pelosi an Albatross or Some Other Aquatic Bird?" San Francisco Examiner, April 22, 2018
"Bulk Food Stockers of the World Unite," San Francisco Examiner, January 21, 2018
"All Landlords Support Rent Control," San Francisco Examiner, January 9, 2018
"SF Politics Battles are Pettier Than They Appear," San Francisco Examiner, December 24, 2017
"White Conservatives Don't Love Their Children," San Francisco Examiner, November 12, 2017
"All Litmus Everything," San Francisco Examiner, October 29, 2017
"Time for Disaster Socialism," San Francisco Examiner, October 15, 2017
"More Taxes, Please," San Francisco Examiner, October 1, 2017
"Immigrants (Protesting Pelosi) Get the Job Done," San Francisco Examiner, September 24, 2017
"Bay Area Comedy Remains Undefeated," San Francisco Examiner, September 17, 2017
"Nato's-Eye View of the Berkeley March," San Francisco Examiner, September 3, 2017
"Racist Sheriffs & Me," San Francisco Examiner, August 20, 2017
"My Spontaneous Ice Cream Social with Mayor Lee about Police Reform," San Francisco Examiner, August 6, 2017
"#NotAllYIMBYs," San Francisco Examiner, July 23, 2017
"A Funkadelic Analysis of Single Payer," San Francisco Examiner, July 9, 2017
"Pride 1991, a Parable," San Francisco Examiner, June 25, 2017
"A Big Week for Tenants Rights," San Francisco Examiner, June 11, 2017
"The Old Affordability-Displacement Switcheroo," San Francisco Examiner, May 28, 2017
"Death Panels for Everyone," San Francisco Examiner, May 14, 2017
"Ranked Choice Voting a Barrier to Participation," San Francisco Examiner, April 30, 2017
"What if Homeless People Trashed Dolores Park," San Francisco Examiner, April 16, 2017
"Landlords Demand Fewer Rights," San Francisco Examiner, April 2, 2017
"The Progressive Capacity Problem," San Francisco Examiner, March 19, 2017
"Letting the Terrorists Win," San Fransisco Examiner, March 5, 2017
"The Greatness of Tom Ammiano," San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 2017
"Five Things About Immigration That Will Blow Your Mind," San Francisco Examiner, February 5, 2017
"Chesky & Me," San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 2017
"A Backbone for Pelosi," San Francisco Examiner, January 8, 2017
"Tis the Season to Roast David Campos," San Francisco Examiner, December 25, 2016
"Fourteen Jokes for When Everything Sucks," San Francisco Examiner, December 11, 2016
"Turning San Francisco into District 13," San Francisco Examiner, November 27, 2016
"Whiteness Cooks the Planet," San Francisco Examiner, November 13, 2016
"Scott Wiener, chartered," San Francisco Examiner, October 30, 2016
"Who do you believe, the Realtors or your own lying eyes?" San Francisco Examiner, October 16, 2016
"Negative Campaign Season in San Francisco," San Francisco Examiner, October 2, 2016
"Ahsha Safai’s distinguished record of not much," San Francisco Examiner, September 18, 2016
"The visible hand pulling strings in San Francisco (It’s money)," San Francisco Examiner, September 4, 2016
"The Underwhelming Candidacy of Josh Arce," San Francisco Examiner, August 21, 2016
"Time to Bern the Senate," San Francisco Examiner, August 7, 2016
"It Could Always Be Worse," San Francisco Examiner, July 24, 2016
"Declaring War on Brisbane," San Francisco Examiner, July 10, 2016
"Supervisor Farrell Builds a Wall to Nowhere," San Francisco Examiner, June 26, 2016
"BerNato in the Mission," San Francisco Examiner, June 12, 2016
"By Right Done Wrong," San Francisco Examiner, May 29, 2016
"San Francisco at the Ramparts," San Francisco Examiner, May 15, 2016
"Losing Sleep for Funk," San Francisco Examiner, May 1, 2016
"The Sacramento Problem," San Francisco Examiner, April 17, 2016
"Bern Down the White House," San Francisco Examiner, April 3, 2016
"Housing Debates are Dumb," San Francisco Examiner, March 20, 2016
"Homelessness is like Broccoli," San Francisco Examiner, March 6, 2016
"Scalia's Death Helped Unions -- until we join him," San Francisco Examiner, February 21, 2016
"A Welcome Letter to Super Bowl Visitors in San Francisco," San Francisco Examiner, February 7, 2016
"Disrupting Disruption," San Francisco Examiner, January 24, 2016
"Latinos to Decide Who to be Pawns Of," San Francisco Examiner, January 10, 2016
"The Cranky Jew Holiday Report", San Francisco Examiner, December 27, 2015
"Most of Us Are Nazis," San Francisco Examiner, December 13, 2015
"Nerding Out on the Affordable Housing Bonus Program," San Francisco Examiner, November 29, 2015
"District Elections 2016: The Force Awakens," San Francisco Examiner, November 15, 2015
"Analyzing Possible Outcomes of Elections," San Francisco Examiner, November 1, 2015
"Airbnb Breaking the Bank to Kill Prop F," San Francisco Examiner, October 18, 2015
"Seeking a Cure for Premature Capitulation," San Francisco Examiner, October 4, 2015
"What is a 'left of left firebrand' anyway?" San Francisco Examiner, September 20, 2015
"Density or Displacement, for Dummies," San Francisco Examiner, September 6, 2015
"History is Written by Hacks," San Francisco Examiner, August 23, 2015
"Prop E is a Solution Looking for a Problem," San Francisco Examiner, August 9, 2015
"Welcome to a New World of US-Cuba Relations," San Francisco Examiner, July 26, 2015
"Peter Hartlaub is a Chump," San Francisco Examiner, June 14, 2015
"Schools are Doomed Without Resources," San Francisco Examiner, May 31, 2015
"Handy Primer for White People on Riots About Racist Police," San Francisco Examiner, May 17, 2015
"Leave the City There," San Francisco Examiner, May 3, 2015
"Presenting the Inaugural Cassandra Awards," San Francisco Examiner, April 19, 2015
"A Life Lesson in Offering Worthless Advice," San Francisco Examiner, April 5, 2015
"Eat the Drought Away," San Francisco Examiner, March 22, 2015
"SPORC & BARF: Together Again for the First Time," San Francisco Examiner, March 8, 2015
"Police Union Tactics Tarnish Force," San Francisco Examiner, February 22, 2015
"Dinnertime for Democracy or Wake Hikes and the Death of Restaurants," San Francisco Examiner, February 8, 2015
"Stop Being Bullied: Let's Sue Mountain View," San Francisco Examiner, January 25, 2015
"Seeking 'Dialogue' About Police Protests," San Francisco Examiner, January 11, 2015
"Do the Math: You Can't Buy a Home in SF," San Francisco Examiner, December 28, 2014
"A Recipe for a Progressive Comeback at the Polls," San Francisco Examiner, November 30, 2014
"What on Earth Does an Assemblyman Do?" San Francisco Examiner, November 3, 2014
"How to be a Landlord in San Francisco," VICE, July 2, 2014
"A PSA for Comedians: How to Read Contracts," TheComicscomic.com, April 1, 2014
"Feel Free to Borrow these Arguments for the Google Bus CEQA Appeal," SF Bay Guardian, March 31, 2014
"Your Boss is a Dick (A Glossary of Labor Terms, Translated)," Truthdig, December 11, 2013
"Top 10 Ways Parents Cope With Waiting for School Assignments," Huffington Post, March 11, 2013
"Non-Fan Nato's Guide to Super Bowl Rioting," The Rumpus, January 29, 2013
"San Francisco's Slippery Slope is Chafing," San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 6, 2012
"Disasters are Live-Action Infomercials for Big Government," The Rumpus, November 5, 2012
"Comedian Nato Green Gets Swallowed by Giants Fans," Huffington Post, November 5, 2012
"Fighting Cynicism Without & Within," Huffington Post, January 10, 2012
"San Francisco Mayor's Race 2011, aka Jonestown 2011," Huffington Post, October 20, 2011
"Going Native. Nato Green 'Knows You're From San Francisco When...'" The Bold Italic, October 3, 2011
"The Rumpus Interview with W. Kamau Bell," The Rumpus, February 2, 2011
"10 Plagues Excerpted from Bernie Madoff's Last Seder at Home," Huffington Post, April 1, 2010
"New Conservative Group Decries Tea Partiers for Not Being Conservative Enough," Huffington Post, March 17, 2010
"Health Care: I Hate Everyone, Part 2 in a Series, Democrats," Huffington Post, October 27, 2009
"Health Care: I Hate Everyone, Part 1 in a Series," Huffington Post, August 19, 2009
"Gay Marriage in Iowa? Come On, San Francisco!" Huffington Post, April 10, 2009
"If GOP Steals the Election, November 5 May Be the Day Obama Gets Too Black for America," Huffington Post, October 29, 2008
"Interview with Hari Kondabolu," SFStandup.com, October 15, 2008
"Please Stop Saying 'Race Card,'" Huffington Post, August 25, 2008
"Of Course Obama is the One, Not That There's Anything Wrong with That," Huffington Post, August 11, 2008
"Top Ten Ways Gay Marriage Harms Straight People," Huffington Post, July 29, 2008
"To Surcharge, Without Love," San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 17, 2008
"Introducing Lamoishe & Hezbollah Schoenfeld," The Rumpus, July 23, 2019
"Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change," In These Times, March 12, 2019
"Introducing the Softest Politicians in the Bay this Week," San Francisco Examiner, September 23, 2018
"Permanent Minority Rule," San Francisco Examiner, September 9, 2018
"Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel to Argue Against Rent Control," San Francisco Examiner, August 26, 2018
"Area Lobbyist Predicts Sky to Fall," San Francisco Examiner, August 11, 2018
"London Breed Supporters Have Sketchy History Supporting Public Housing," San Francisco Examiner, July 29, 2018
"Politics is Kinda, Sometimes, Depends," San Francisco Examiner, July 14, 2018
"It's Time for the SF Police Union to Bargain," San Francisco Examiner, July 1, 2018
"A Letter to Senator Wiener about SB 827," San Francisco Examiner, June 16, 2018
"Styrofoam London," San Francisco Examiner, June 3, 2018
"What If the American Media Covered Cuba Like a Normal Place," The LA Review of Books, May 13, 2018
"Is Pelosi an Albatross or Some Other Aquatic Bird?" San Francisco Examiner, April 22, 2018
"Bulk Food Stockers of the World Unite," San Francisco Examiner, January 21, 2018
"All Landlords Support Rent Control," San Francisco Examiner, January 9, 2018
"SF Politics Battles are Pettier Than They Appear," San Francisco Examiner, December 24, 2017
"White Conservatives Don't Love Their Children," San Francisco Examiner, November 12, 2017
"All Litmus Everything," San Francisco Examiner, October 29, 2017
"Time for Disaster Socialism," San Francisco Examiner, October 15, 2017
"More Taxes, Please," San Francisco Examiner, October 1, 2017
"Immigrants (Protesting Pelosi) Get the Job Done," San Francisco Examiner, September 24, 2017
"Bay Area Comedy Remains Undefeated," San Francisco Examiner, September 17, 2017
"Nato's-Eye View of the Berkeley March," San Francisco Examiner, September 3, 2017
"Racist Sheriffs & Me," San Francisco Examiner, August 20, 2017
"My Spontaneous Ice Cream Social with Mayor Lee about Police Reform," San Francisco Examiner, August 6, 2017
"#NotAllYIMBYs," San Francisco Examiner, July 23, 2017
"A Funkadelic Analysis of Single Payer," San Francisco Examiner, July 9, 2017
"Pride 1991, a Parable," San Francisco Examiner, June 25, 2017
"A Big Week for Tenants Rights," San Francisco Examiner, June 11, 2017
"The Old Affordability-Displacement Switcheroo," San Francisco Examiner, May 28, 2017
"Death Panels for Everyone," San Francisco Examiner, May 14, 2017
"Ranked Choice Voting a Barrier to Participation," San Francisco Examiner, April 30, 2017
"What if Homeless People Trashed Dolores Park," San Francisco Examiner, April 16, 2017
"Landlords Demand Fewer Rights," San Francisco Examiner, April 2, 2017
"The Progressive Capacity Problem," San Francisco Examiner, March 19, 2017
"Letting the Terrorists Win," San Fransisco Examiner, March 5, 2017
"The Greatness of Tom Ammiano," San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 2017
"Five Things About Immigration That Will Blow Your Mind," San Francisco Examiner, February 5, 2017
"Chesky & Me," San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 2017
"A Backbone for Pelosi," San Francisco Examiner, January 8, 2017
"Tis the Season to Roast David Campos," San Francisco Examiner, December 25, 2016
"Fourteen Jokes for When Everything Sucks," San Francisco Examiner, December 11, 2016
"Turning San Francisco into District 13," San Francisco Examiner, November 27, 2016
"Whiteness Cooks the Planet," San Francisco Examiner, November 13, 2016
"Scott Wiener, chartered," San Francisco Examiner, October 30, 2016
"Who do you believe, the Realtors or your own lying eyes?" San Francisco Examiner, October 16, 2016
"Negative Campaign Season in San Francisco," San Francisco Examiner, October 2, 2016
"Ahsha Safai’s distinguished record of not much," San Francisco Examiner, September 18, 2016
"The visible hand pulling strings in San Francisco (It’s money)," San Francisco Examiner, September 4, 2016
"The Underwhelming Candidacy of Josh Arce," San Francisco Examiner, August 21, 2016
"Time to Bern the Senate," San Francisco Examiner, August 7, 2016
"It Could Always Be Worse," San Francisco Examiner, July 24, 2016
"Declaring War on Brisbane," San Francisco Examiner, July 10, 2016
"Supervisor Farrell Builds a Wall to Nowhere," San Francisco Examiner, June 26, 2016
"BerNato in the Mission," San Francisco Examiner, June 12, 2016
"By Right Done Wrong," San Francisco Examiner, May 29, 2016
"San Francisco at the Ramparts," San Francisco Examiner, May 15, 2016
"Losing Sleep for Funk," San Francisco Examiner, May 1, 2016
"The Sacramento Problem," San Francisco Examiner, April 17, 2016
"Bern Down the White House," San Francisco Examiner, April 3, 2016
"Housing Debates are Dumb," San Francisco Examiner, March 20, 2016
"Homelessness is like Broccoli," San Francisco Examiner, March 6, 2016
"Scalia's Death Helped Unions -- until we join him," San Francisco Examiner, February 21, 2016
"A Welcome Letter to Super Bowl Visitors in San Francisco," San Francisco Examiner, February 7, 2016
"Disrupting Disruption," San Francisco Examiner, January 24, 2016
"Latinos to Decide Who to be Pawns Of," San Francisco Examiner, January 10, 2016
"The Cranky Jew Holiday Report", San Francisco Examiner, December 27, 2015
"Most of Us Are Nazis," San Francisco Examiner, December 13, 2015
"Nerding Out on the Affordable Housing Bonus Program," San Francisco Examiner, November 29, 2015
"District Elections 2016: The Force Awakens," San Francisco Examiner, November 15, 2015
"Analyzing Possible Outcomes of Elections," San Francisco Examiner, November 1, 2015
"Airbnb Breaking the Bank to Kill Prop F," San Francisco Examiner, October 18, 2015
"Seeking a Cure for Premature Capitulation," San Francisco Examiner, October 4, 2015
"What is a 'left of left firebrand' anyway?" San Francisco Examiner, September 20, 2015
"Density or Displacement, for Dummies," San Francisco Examiner, September 6, 2015
"History is Written by Hacks," San Francisco Examiner, August 23, 2015
"Prop E is a Solution Looking for a Problem," San Francisco Examiner, August 9, 2015
"Welcome to a New World of US-Cuba Relations," San Francisco Examiner, July 26, 2015
"Peter Hartlaub is a Chump," San Francisco Examiner, June 14, 2015
"Schools are Doomed Without Resources," San Francisco Examiner, May 31, 2015
"Handy Primer for White People on Riots About Racist Police," San Francisco Examiner, May 17, 2015
"Leave the City There," San Francisco Examiner, May 3, 2015
"Presenting the Inaugural Cassandra Awards," San Francisco Examiner, April 19, 2015
"A Life Lesson in Offering Worthless Advice," San Francisco Examiner, April 5, 2015
"Eat the Drought Away," San Francisco Examiner, March 22, 2015
"SPORC & BARF: Together Again for the First Time," San Francisco Examiner, March 8, 2015
"Police Union Tactics Tarnish Force," San Francisco Examiner, February 22, 2015
"Dinnertime for Democracy or Wake Hikes and the Death of Restaurants," San Francisco Examiner, February 8, 2015
"Stop Being Bullied: Let's Sue Mountain View," San Francisco Examiner, January 25, 2015
"Seeking 'Dialogue' About Police Protests," San Francisco Examiner, January 11, 2015
"Do the Math: You Can't Buy a Home in SF," San Francisco Examiner, December 28, 2014
"A Recipe for a Progressive Comeback at the Polls," San Francisco Examiner, November 30, 2014
"What on Earth Does an Assemblyman Do?" San Francisco Examiner, November 3, 2014
"How to be a Landlord in San Francisco," VICE, July 2, 2014
"A PSA for Comedians: How to Read Contracts," TheComicscomic.com, April 1, 2014
"Feel Free to Borrow these Arguments for the Google Bus CEQA Appeal," SF Bay Guardian, March 31, 2014
"Your Boss is a Dick (A Glossary of Labor Terms, Translated)," Truthdig, December 11, 2013
"Top 10 Ways Parents Cope With Waiting for School Assignments," Huffington Post, March 11, 2013
"Non-Fan Nato's Guide to Super Bowl Rioting," The Rumpus, January 29, 2013
"San Francisco's Slippery Slope is Chafing," San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 6, 2012
"Disasters are Live-Action Infomercials for Big Government," The Rumpus, November 5, 2012
"Comedian Nato Green Gets Swallowed by Giants Fans," Huffington Post, November 5, 2012
"Fighting Cynicism Without & Within," Huffington Post, January 10, 2012
"San Francisco Mayor's Race 2011, aka Jonestown 2011," Huffington Post, October 20, 2011
"Going Native. Nato Green 'Knows You're From San Francisco When...'" The Bold Italic, October 3, 2011
"The Rumpus Interview with W. Kamau Bell," The Rumpus, February 2, 2011
"10 Plagues Excerpted from Bernie Madoff's Last Seder at Home," Huffington Post, April 1, 2010
"New Conservative Group Decries Tea Partiers for Not Being Conservative Enough," Huffington Post, March 17, 2010
"Health Care: I Hate Everyone, Part 2 in a Series, Democrats," Huffington Post, October 27, 2009
"Health Care: I Hate Everyone, Part 1 in a Series," Huffington Post, August 19, 2009
"Gay Marriage in Iowa? Come On, San Francisco!" Huffington Post, April 10, 2009
"If GOP Steals the Election, November 5 May Be the Day Obama Gets Too Black for America," Huffington Post, October 29, 2008
"Interview with Hari Kondabolu," SFStandup.com, October 15, 2008
"Please Stop Saying 'Race Card,'" Huffington Post, August 25, 2008
"Of Course Obama is the One, Not That There's Anything Wrong with That," Huffington Post, August 11, 2008
"Top Ten Ways Gay Marriage Harms Straight People," Huffington Post, July 29, 2008
"To Surcharge, Without Love," San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 17, 2008