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The New Mortal Sins
The Progressive, June 10, 2008
Now that everyone can shoot cell phone or flip-cam videos and pop them on YouTube, maybe God, chief all-seeing enforcer...
The Unconflicted White Man
The Progressive, March 13, 2008
My Indian girlfriend makes me capture crickets using a humane catch and release program, that would make a Lou Dobbs...
Bush as Belichick
The Progressive, January 17, 2008
In his first Presidential summer, with the Crawford split-rail, photo-op fence behind him, George Bush, the science guy, squinted into...
2007 Holiday Books
The Progressive, December 14, 2007
An Army of Ex-Lovers by Amy Hoffman Map of Ireland - Stephanie Grant An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at...
Hypocrites Galore
The Progressive, September 24, 2007
A disturbing disorder is sweeping the nation. First there was SAD, Social Anxiety disorder. Formerly known as "shy", SAD is...
B is for Benchmark
The Progressive, July 19, 2007
Apiculturalists have answered that famous Hamlet multiple-choice, existential question: a. to be or b. not to be. The answer is...
The Body Politic
The Progressive, March 02, 2007
During our long domestic and international nightmare, it is perhaps no mistake that millions of people have paid money to...
Happy Returns
The Progressive, January 19, 2007
The night before the mid-term elections, I left the U.S. with my galpal on a business trip to Kenya. Hers,...
Holiday Books 2006
The Progressive, December 20, 2006
In a year when Oprah had blown a righteous gasket at being pretexted by James Frey, I waded cautiously into...
The U.N. Goes to Junior High
The Progressive, November 20, 2006
I could hardly get to the computer repair shop. My system crash had occurred as I wrote about UN Security...
Not Full Citizens
The Progressive, October 23, 2006
The New York Supreme Court exhibited classic, pre-9/11 thinking in its ruling that the state constitution does not permit gay...
He-Who
The Progressive, June 29, 2006
The credits rolling after the 1990 Kevin Costner oeuvre, Dances with Wolves, featured the following character names: He who smiles...
Reading Between the Holy Lines
The Progressive, March 14, 2006
I’m not saying this in any kind of Mayflower snooty way, but I was recently jiggering with some of those...
Hikikomori
The Progressive, February 28, 2006
When I was four or five, I was fascinated by sporadic National Geographic stories of the lone Japanese soldier emerging...
Women of the Year
The Progressive, December 30, 2005
In my recent travels I saw an article in a local paper about a women's auxiliary luncheon to honor their...
The Passion of the Penguins
The Progressive, October 30, 2005
If my recent movie attendance is any indication of the national box office receipts, Hollywood can put a fork in...
We're Back in Kansas, Toto
The Progressive, August 30, 2005
Lots of my friends have read and loved Thomas Frank's bracing book, What's the Matter with Kansas? As well-documented in...
I Want My Gay TV
The Progressive, July 30, 2005
Good news for anyone chanting "I want my Gay TV!" We'll soon have not one, but three new gay channels!...
Why Not Hillary?
The Progressive, March 30, 2005
OK, I did not leave on the four-year gay cruise that sailed down the Potomac on January 21, nor am...
Extreme Makeover
The Progressive, November 30, 2004
At kiosks and bus stops all over New York, there are posters for the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse. And almost...
Whoopi Caution
The Progressive, September 30, 2004
By press time I was unable to obtain a copy of the tape of Whoopi Goldberg at the Madison Square...
Wedded to the Republicans
The Progressive, May 30, 2004
These are hard days for Gay Republicans. When the Lord of the Wedding Rings held his no-questions-asked press conference, he...
What the L?
The Progressive, February 28, 2004
The same week The L-Word premiered on Showtime, The W announced that he was going to press for 1.5 billion...
Mad Vow Disease, Part II
The Progressive, December 30, 2003
FYI: The Summer of Gay has been extended into the Year of the Queer. Another heads up: Mad Vow Disease,...
Men Behaving Badly
The Progressive, November 30, 2003
In late August, major pharmaceutical companies began a full frontal publicity campaign for their new Viagra spin-offs. Apparently, men had...
Cuture War Bride
The Progressive, July 30, 2003
All the good news at the end of June highlighted just how bad the news has been. The Supreme Court...
Weapons of Mass Distraction
The Progressive, June 30, 2003
Got to hurry up and finish this column - Ari Fleischer is leaving his job to spend more time with...
As Long As It Takes
The Progressive, May 30, 2003
Just got back from a tour of duty as human shield for the Dixie Chicks. Fair is fowl. After a...
Up to Code
The Progressive, January 30, 2003
At a recent Lesbian Health conference in Washington, DC, two attendees were idly watching the world go by from their...
Regimen Change
The Progressive, November 30, 2002
One fall Friday afternoon, late in the Reagan regnum, I was raging with my friend Sandra about militarism, misogyny, hypocrisy,...
Hormoneland Security
The Progressive, August 30, 2002
I liked George better when he was just reading to the kids, as was his former photo-op wont. But now...
Veiled Threats
The Progressive, July 30, 2002
On May 15, 2002, six members of the House of Representatives introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that says, "marriage shall...
Juggernaut George
The Progressive, May 30, 2002
When old Juggernaut George read to us that the increased border security would help the war on drugs, the anthrax...
All the President's Women
The Progressive, March 30, 2002
Every gal needs a hobby. In light of recent events -- and really, there was so little light -- and...
The Dust Bin of History
The Progressive, December 30, 2001
Silly me. Bush was elected. War is the answer. A little torture is a good thing. Ditto racial profiling. I've...
Holiday 2001 Books
The Progressive, December 30, 2001
Everybody loves interactive book listmania! Before you read three of my recommendations, see if you can put my reading list...
The Firefighter Next Door
The Progressive, November 30, 2001
On Monday night, September 10, we finally had our across-the-hall neighbors, Kevin and Jen, over for dinner. Jen had recently...
How I Spent My Summer Tax Rebate Check
The Progressive, August 30, 2001
The first week in July, I replaced the vacationing Dick Cavett as narrator in The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway....
The Big Dirt Nap Lottery
The Progressive, June 30, 2001
Before Jim Jeffords jumped ship, our sister progressive magazine, The Nation, recently had a great cover caricature of the orange-hued,...
Surrender, Lauras
The Progressive, April 30, 2001
Lately I feel as if I am living in a John Grisham novel: The Chad. Here's the Grishamic vignette: A...
The Charm Offensive
The Progressive, March 30, 2001
It's not that my Post Election Traumatic Stress has totally disappeared. The sleep disorder continues. I have nightmares I've been...
The Rush to Crown George Duh
The Progressive, March 30, 2001
If I had a dollar for each time someone has said to me, "You must be having a great time...
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