Thursday, March 31, 2016

The self-loathing card

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Many lazy thinkers love thought-terminating clichés, and lazy thinkers who are gay men often play the self-loathing card. When someone depar...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Donald Trump: Political correctness for the white working class

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People often praise Donald Trump for being politically incorrect. In one sense he is, but in a more fundamental philosophical way, he is pol...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Someone actually wrote this: David Brooks and the "new" shame culture

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David Brooks, in today's New York Times, writes of a "new" shame culture that has allegedly taken over college campuses sinc...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Someone actually wrote this: Government, Apple, and privacy

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In an op-ed in today's New York Times, " In the Government vs. Apple, Who Wears the Black Hat? ," Robert Levine asks, "S...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Live by the Political Sword, Die by the Political Sword

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In Virginia, Christian social conservatives are calling for a law protecting freedom of association and freedom of religion — or, more accu...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Every true Scotsman

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I've previously blogged about the "no true Scotsman" fallacy, which involves redefining a category to exclude members of that...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

The latest thing to blame on gay men

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This article on hookup culture in The Washington Post attributes today's hookup culture to demographics and states that gender ratios ...