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Well, I managed to stick my big dumb old white guy foot in it again. An article in “The Atlantic” entitled “The Growing Gender Divide, Three...
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Watching the HBO series “The Sympathizer” is a very odd experience. Beautifully crafted with excellence in every department, it reveals a central...
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I’ve been duped, and I don’t like it.For years, some of us have been telling the rest of us that critical race theory was only taught in law...
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I am not the biggest Taylor Swift fan in the room. I saw her special about the music she recorded with two musicians during the pandemic and was...
The meme began: “We think we want sex. It’s intimacy we want.” It went on to define intimacy as being touched, admired, looked at, smiled at. In...
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It doesn’t really surprise me that two of the greatest, most cherished monster movies came from the minds of two gay men: James Whale...
What exactly is a “Christian nationalist”? I asked Google. It said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_nationalism The...
My disdain for the Belt Parkway is well-documented. This article will extend that documentation. During the month of November, while we were caring...
I’m getting sick and tired of folks from all sides taking swipes at public education. I taught special education (mostly middle school) for 28 years...
I didn’t finish the story about surviving COVID. Four days after I was clear of it, Joan tested positive. This followed a round of trying to get her...
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