Matt Ralston's Blog

When I first read that genderqueer activist Rain Dove was pepper sprayed by an anti-trans bigot for looking like a man in a public women’s restroom my first reaction was, no she wasn’t. Didn’t happen. Rain Dove, I believe, made up a story, actually faked a hate crime, and succeeded in having her name placed ...

I remember when Watergate went down, I was a young boy of 13, unfamiliar with the ways of the world. I watched as a nation went through the stages of denial, grief, and acceptance. Actually I was born in 1982, but that’s how I imagine it. I suppose I could talk to some baby boomer ...

I don’t mean the people of San Diego, I like them, mostly. I like 80’s cover bands and steroids and dated tattoos and blaming unprovoked physical assault on the PTSD you sustained while watching South Park in your sprawling colonial emcampment while never being deployed. I like white people. The kind who smile at you ...

It’s become fashionable for Fox News pundits to dismiss progressive people as “living in a bubble.” Like most everything else on Fox News, this is idiotic. The “bubble” is supposed to symbolize an isolated community full of entitled ill-informed individuals who know nothing about life in America outside of their little circle of abortion having ...

“It has not been easy for me. And you know I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.” That’s a direct quote from Donald Trump, at a town hall event, on October 26th, 2015. It’s also, to put it politely, an egregious lie. His father actually gave ...

Elizabeth Warren just released her DNA results. It turns out she has some Native American ancestry dating back 6-10 generations, making her somewhere between 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American. Hmm. Contrary to popular belief, Warren didn’t claim minority status in her college applications. She did claim she was a minority in a commonly referenced directory ...