All posts by Sean Bugg
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Funny Business
Not long ago, I submitted myself to a full physical at my doctor's office after much concerned haranguing from husband and family. It's heartwarming that...
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Mary Cheney Gets Contrary
It's hard being the family gay. When you're the first in your family to come out — meaning the active choice to live your life...
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It's the ENDA the World (as We Know It)
About five years into Barack Obama's socialistic — or fascistic, depending on which side of the bed congressional Republicans woke up on this morning —...
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Asian, Party of One
So while I was driving my nephew back to Falls Church for a weekend visit, we were having a conversation about the experience of 8th...
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The Ruling Classless
I consider myself fortunate that I took off last week to work on another project because about the last thing in the world I wanted...
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Government, Cheesed
In the summer of 1991 I scraped together some coins from my rapidly depleting change bowl and hopped on the 14th Street bus that took...
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The Biggest Losers
You have to admit that as gay people we have some considerable experience at losing. While the pace of change in recent years for LGBT...
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Slaughter. Rip. Repeat.
I happen to be a person who enjoys doing enjoyable things over again. Most of my favorite books I’ve read more than once and I...
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Ready? Set! No.
Even after a few years of watching it grow, I still find myself fascinated daily by my Facebook feed. The thousand or so ''friends'' I...
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Comfortably Numb
One of my instinctual reactions to bad news or worse people is humor, which is why I've always enjoyed writing about Ken Cuccinelli, Rick Santorum...
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Three Steps to the Future
It's an old saw of journalism that if you can string together three related instances you have a trend or, at least, a think piece....
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Fuzzy Little Balls
I was still in elementary school when I first began banging tennis balls against the cinder-block side of my grandparents' garage using an old wooden...
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Why So Serious?
I take my politics seriously, because politics is a means to an end, how we decide the structure of our society and best provide for...
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No Pain, No Gain
As it becomes clearer every day that there will be no boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and that odds of moving...
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Russian to Judgment
When traveling abroad, you generally hope to enjoy a cultural experience that lets you know you're not in Kansas anymore. In which case, you should...
