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Some ideas for gifts for my birthday and/or other holiday type things. (by popular request)

Books:

• A People's History of Poverty in America - Stephen Pimpare
• Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World - Vijay Prashad
• The Making of the Fittest - Carroll
• Beyond the Green Zone - Dahr Jamai
• Books by Bruce Fein
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Paperback) - Levinson
• Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice - Eric Lichtblau
• Punctuated Equilibrium - Gould
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman

Movies:

• Leatherheads
• Fast and Furious 2
• Operation Condor 1
• Harry Potter > 5
• Night at the Museum
• Undercover Blues
• Space Camp

Tour de France DVDs:

• 2005 - The longer the better (I dunno if there is a 4 disc version)

Misc:

• Gift certificate to Scan Cafe - Scan Cafe site
• Gift cert to REI
• Gift cert to Patagonia

As you may be able to tell from my blog, I am a guy - 29 - who questions much of what passes for common sense. Though I may appear to lean left, I actually harbor deep suspicions for both the traditional right and left. Like many activists right now, I am more easily defined by what I am opposed to, than by what I support. That is changing, but slowly. What doesn't change is that I respect honesty, honor, and courage.

Until recently, I worked in a used bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota. I recently completed a Master's of Public Policy Degree at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota (go Gophers). I also shoot sports photography for Macalester College and the U of M (and others when they pay me). When not working, I hit up the rock climbing gym, my bicycle, or a book. Used to play soccer (among other sports) but my ankle decided to develop a horrific defect which apparently will keep me from ever running again. I'm still trying to be active - and my blog reflects that.

There are a few oddities about me in which you might be interested to help make sense of my comments. I have never used alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs. I can't explain why I haven't (or maybe I just won't). Those around me have used most of 'em. I'm not interested in forcing others to act as I do - I'm no prohibitionist. I refuse to be serious about most everything. I see humor in much of everything - and having read up a bit on Eastern Philosophy, I no longer think that is a problem.