Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Baby steps into gay life ('75)

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During my summer of traveling around Western Europe (1975) , I felt free and totally unknown, and I played with being gay. I had accepted p...

Cathedrals, monuments, and history ('75)

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Transcribed from my travel diary from my summer in Western Europe in 1975 : [After visiting Notre Dame in Paris] With every additional monum...

My dependence on language ('75)

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Transcribed from my trip diary of my summer in Western Europe in 1975 : [Paris was the first time I had been alone in a place where I didn...

Western Europe trip - '75

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In Regents Park, London In the summer of 1975, against my grad school academic advisor's wishes, I went to Western Europe for about six ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

On boycotting Target (April '11)

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This letter of mine was published in the Los Angeles Times in April 2011: Only one thing can get me to return to a Target store: The corpor...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

Harris: "The Case Against Faith" ('06)

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Newsweek Nov. 13, 2006 The Case Against Faith by Sam Harris   [excerpted; full text at the link above]  ... 44 percent of Americans are co...

More bumperstickers ('06)

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Be nice to America or we'll bring democracy to your country. Bush: Like a rock, only dumber. Annoy a conservative: Think. Ignorance and ...

Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner ('06)

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Satirist Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April 2006. The full video (24:10) is here The full transcript is ...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

On language, thought, gender, and direction

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("Finally!" some readers may feel, "a blog post that's closer to what a blog post should be!") Today's New York...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

On boycotting Target (Aug. '10)

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This letter of mine was published in the Los Angeles Times in August 2010: Most of my clothes are from Target, but no more. Why in the worl...