Unlike many personal websites, you won’t find any autobiographies here. That’s because I think you can tell plenty about someone just by knowing what their interests and beliefs are. So instead of telling you all about myself, I’ll introduce you to what I think are some of the most interesting sites on the Web:

Political Causes and Community Organizations

• AlterNet
  If you frequent only one website in your life, make it this one. Intelligent, honest news reporting without all the hypocrisy and falsehoods of the mainstream media.

• The Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy
  Now that we have an Interior Secretary, Gale Norton, who seems hell-bent on destroying the environment, supporting organizations like these is more important than ever before.

• Cuba Solidarity
  An organization devoted to ending the U.S. blockade that has kept the people of an entire nation in poverty.

• Hellman-Hammett Grants
  Provides financial assistance for writers around the world who have been exiled, imprisoned, tortured, or persecuted because of their writings. The grants are administered by Human Rights Watch and are funded by the estates of playwright Lillian Hellman and crime novelist Dashiell Hammett.

• Paul Robeson Fund For Independent Media
  Because most media outlets are owned by conservative corporations, the only way many filmmakers can find funding for controversial and socially conscious projects is through organizations like this.

• Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
  Led by Subcomandante Marcos, an army of peasants is still fighting for human rights and land reform in the Southern Mexico state of Chiapas.

• El Paso Community Foundation
  Supports various community causes in West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua. Currently they are trying to raise money for restoration of El Paso’s historic Plaza Theatre.

• Green Party
  Tired of being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils in every election? Give these guys a try.

People I Admire

• Steve Biko
  The Black Consciousness leader who was murdered in South Africa in 1977.

• César Chávez
  The César E. Chávez Institute For Public Policy at San Francisco State has a website about the life of the great labor leader.

• Frederick Douglass
  The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, D.C., has all kinds of information about one of the most remarkable Americans of the 19th century.

• Emma Goldman
  The Emma Goldman Papers Project at U.C. Berkeley has a great website about this visionary and early advocate of anarchy, feminism, peace, and free speech.

• Paul Robeson
  Rutgers University has a good website about its most distinguished alumnus, who is my choice as the most interesting and remarkable person in American history.

• Rubén Salazar
  Aztlan.net has an online biography of the journalist and activist for Mexican-American civil rights who was killed by the Los Angeles police during a peace demonstration in 1970.

Baseball Links

• The Jackie Robinson Society
  A now-defunct student organization that I started while attending the University of Texas. The Society is no longer, but its website (designed by yours truly) still survives, and has lots of information on Jackie Robinson.

• Baseball Primer
  I write an occasional column for this intriguing site, which bills itself as "Baseball For the Thinking Fan."

• Baseball-Reference.com
  The best baseball website in existence, hands down. An online baseball encyclopedia with complete career stats for every player in history, plus award winners, postseason results, and much more.

• Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
  If you’re a student of baseball history, then you should join 7,000 of your closest friends and become a member of this fine organization.

• Baseball Reliquary
  A quirky alternative to the Hall of Fame, its inductees include Bill Veeck, Dock Ellis, and Bill "Spaceman" Lee.

Sites About Movies

• The John Sayles Border Stop
  Lots of information about the greatest filmmaker in America today.

• Alfred Hitchcock Turns 100
  The New York Times has a well-done webpage celebrating the master of suspense’s 100th birthday.

• Charlie Chaplin UK and Damfinos: The International Buster Keaton Society
  Silent film comedy is one of our great cultural treasures, and Chaplin and Keaton were its two visionary artists.

• Gordon Parks
  A site about the multi-talented filmmaker, photographer, musician, and writer.

Sites About Music

• Ani DiFranco
  If you’ve never heard her music, you’re missing out on some of the most thoughtful and powerful songs in the world.

• Rage Against the Machine
  Even if you don’t dig their music, listen to what they have to say— they’re the most important and influential musical act of our generation.

• Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives
  Keeps Woody’s fightin’ spirit alive.

• Letters at 3 A.M.
  A perceptive article about the tragic life of Phil Ochs, by Michael Ventura of the Austin Chronicle.

• Expecting Rain
  There are a lot of Bob Dylan sites out there, but this is the best one.

• Greasy Lake
  There are a lot of Bruce Springsteen sites out there, but this is the best one.

Miscellaneous Links

• National Writers Union
  I’m a member of this AFL-CIO affiliated union, which represents the interests of freelance writers nationwide.

• Center For Steinbeck Studies
  Located at San Jose State University, this is a good place to learn more about the great literary champion of the downtrodden.

• Tim Hardaway, Uncut
  ESPN’s Dan Patrick did a great interview with my favorite basketball player, Miami Heat point guard Tim Hardaway.

About My Friends and Family

• My brother Mark is an outfielder for the University of North Alabama Lions.
• Andy "The Freak" Reynoso runs Última Media Arts, a graphic design company.
• Jorge Jimenez has a standup comedy gig at The Comic Strip in El Paso, Texas.
• Jeremy Jones is a bit bewildered that there are so many people named Jeremy Jones in the world.
• Someday, many years from now, Chelsea Klein may actually graduate from Arizona State University.
• David Jones thinks he has a better Strat-O-Matic team than I do. He's full of crap.
• Amy Essington runs a website about Negro League baseball owner Effa Manley.
• Joey "Homestead" Elger is a radio announcer for the Stanford University baseball team.
• Tim Wiles wants to be the Phillie Phanatic when he grows up.
• Jeff Bryan goes to Yale Law School, but I try not to hold that against him.
• King Gary Payne is a badass photographer for the Odessa American.
• Veronica Acosta thinks she’s hot shit because she’s in the FBI.

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