Columns
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Still Facing Wolves
Totemism, in which a group identifies with a symbolic animal, survives mostly in sports teams. But modern politics also has a totemic aspect, though not...
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Last Pitch Effort
{Sean Bugg and Cavin Le exchange rings (Photo by Ward Morrison)} I've joked often in the past few months that I'm lucky my family tree...
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Keeping Them Close
Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, I've been enjoying a longer-than-expected family visit to Kentucky for my Granny Bugg's 100th birthday party. As anyone who follows me...
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Values Voter
It's very unlikely that anyone who knows me would ever consider me a risk-taker. My nickname is ''Brakes.'' I'm like the babysitter who won't let...
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Shape-Shifting and Distractions
Like a mythical shape-shifter or a repertory actor, Mitt Romney will pretend to be whatever you need. Politicians often do this, but he reaches new...
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Signs of the Times
{There goes the neighborhood (Photo by Sean Bugg)} My neighborhood these past two weeks has become an incessant reminder of why this is the most...
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So Long, Sihanouk
Monday, Oct. 15, was Cambodian ''King-Father'' Norodom Sihanouk's last day on this mortal plain. It's okay, don't be sad. He was 89, after all. His...
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Obama and Romney Get Passes on LGBT Questions
One thing we learned on Tuesday night — or relearned, since every election cycle of the past 20 years has taught the same lesson —...
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Fields of Dreams
If there's anything that illustrates the difference between men and women — and, by extension, gay men and lesbians — it's sports. I do not...
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Smirking and Magical Thinking
One of the wonders of our age is the persistence of ''Birthers'' and other True Believers who insist that Barack Obama is an Islamist terrorist...
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Hateful Times
I dearly want to write a horrible and mean and nasty column about the race-baiting journalistic train wreck of Tucker Carlson, but it's been done...
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''But What's Obama Done for Me Lately?''
Given the ongoing efforts of Republicans to establish stringent voter ID laws to eradicate a fraudulent voting problem — a problem that even the laws'...
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Resisting the Rage Trade
The anti-gay, xenophobic and misogynist bullies of the Christian right are so determined to defeat President Obama and promote orthodoxy that they endanger American diplomats...
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One Year Later, DADT Repeal Resonates
Back in 1992, the height of my activist period, there were two main issues I cared about: HIV/AIDS and military service. AIDS was, and remains,...
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Line in the Sand
The summer between sixth and seventh grade – for me, 1981 – I'd gone to visit my dad, stepmom and new baby sister. It was...
