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Oct.17.2012
One has to break the media down to understand that it is a larger entity I call the "Dominant Media Culture," which consists of networks, cable, newspapers, magazines, radio, Hollywood, books, the East and West Coast opinion elite, and other outlets. Overall, there is simply not a...
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Oct.08.2012
This fall, Ryan Andresen, of Moraga, California was denied Eagle Scout status by the Boy Scouts of America because he had told others he was gay.
As you probably know, the rank of Eagle Scout is the highest honor a scout can achieve, and to earn the rank, the scout must jump through numerous hoops...
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Sep.03.2012
image via mobilism.org
Harper’s Magazine, September 2012 Issue
As a reader, my affection for Harper’s Magazine continues to grow. That’s not because of its leftward political cant, but because its articles usually contain explanatory substance behind most provocative...
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May.23.2012
photo: Book cover from the author's website, www.amandastevens.com
So I'm standing in Stop & Shop, where I buy many of my books these days--which is an issue I'll probably take up with my blog--when I saw this book. Quick to judge a book by its cover, literally and...
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May.12.2012
Blind justice (that doesn't see the inevitable context of any given event) isn't justice. Such blind justice is plain old ignorance.
But the justice that sees (the justice that factors in the context) is no justice either. The justice without the blindfold - the justice...
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Aug.07.2011
Not since slavery in the USA were mothers punished by having their children taken away from them. Yet, in family courts all across America, judges and quasi-judicial officers of the court do just that: children who are abused or molested by their fathers are removed from their primary-care good...
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Jun.03.2011
Everyone is calling him an attention-seeker and giving him all the attention. V.S.Naipaul got kissed by a Pakistani woman and in a rather Jane Austenesque ouch moment they were married. His ‘misogyny’ is a lived experience and not merely the words he spews out, although misogyny is quite the...
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Jul.16.2010
I just read that the average woman is a size 14! That’s good news for those of us who view ourselves as oversized. It's a mindset we've cultivated after years of looking at models in magazines and on television. Being told my dress size is average is particularly empowering if I take it to mean...
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Jul.05.2010
The hotel elevator descended and my elevator companion, a man about my age, held the carnivorous doors open when we reached the lobby. He looked at me and said in a superior tone “You seem in a hurry. That’s too bad. I never hurry any more.”
I hustled across the hotel lobby dragging our wheeled...
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Jun.18.2010
It was summer 2004 when most of us first became familiar with Barack Obama. Then an Illinois state senator, the U.S. senate candidate delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston: the first of his many now-famous orations on a national stage. Therein he delivered...
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