Sunday, March 24, 2013

Fiction: The Raw Materials of a Man

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“Are you going to finish that?” asked Kenny, pointing to my uneaten French toast with his fork. “No, you go ahead and finish it,” I resp...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Free speech and hate speech, or: The obligatory Michelle Shocked post

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Michelle Shocked has the right to be Princess Clara on the subject of same-sex marriage and then to backpedal furiously when called on it. C...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Today's vocabulary term: free market

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free market, n. phr. whatever I don't like From Jezebel.com: From the PRI report (which names Microsoft as a major supporter of the i...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

In other papal news, water is wet.

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My liberal friends are shocked by Pope Francis's history of pronouncements on women and gays. What did they expect? What sort of perso...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The latest in the war on soda, and why it matters to LGBT people

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The latest: A judge struck down New York’s limits on large sugary drinks on Monday, one day before they were to take effect, in a significan...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

My latest letter to the editor

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... is here , in the Science Times section of The New York Times: Re “Prison and the Poverty Trap” (Feb. 19): The article shows that the wa...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

In the Catholic Church, life imitates The Onion.

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From The Onion: VATICAN CITY—Calling forgiveness "one of the highest virtues taught to us by Jesus," Pope John Paul II issued a pa...