Columns
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Ballot-Box Solidarity
When Rick Santorum talks of imposing his idea of God's Plan on his fellow citizens; when Rush Limbaugh calls a law student a ''slut'' and...
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Southern Living
In the days leading up to Rick Santorum's Southern twofer of Alabama and Mississippi, there was a minor contretemps among some pundits about the polling...
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So Sorry
There are few things in life as insulting as an insincere apology for an insult. We know this because it is one of life's guarantees...
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Reaching Out to the Church
A few weeks ago I was invited to sit down with the cast of American University's Bare, The Musical, and discuss my life as a...
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Higher Dread
Whether you breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night when Rick Santorum lost in Michigan or a sigh of disappointment that he didn't take out...
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Capehart vs. Christie
The dirty secret about bullying is that it is more popular than most of us care to admit. Many adults believe that a bullying victim...
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Rocky Reckoning
It must've been the summer of 1979, because I remember specifically that people were talking about American Airlines Flight 191. The ill-fated DC-10 lost one...
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Reflections on Black History Month
Since 1926, February was known for the celebration of black American history. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., initiated ''Negro History Week,'' which it...
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Too High a Price
Living in Virginia comes with a price. First, though, there are the benefits, the most important of which is that it makes my husband happy....
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Violent Words, Violent Acts
CNN commentator Roland Martin was just having a little fun with his now-infamous Super Bowl tweets: ''If a dude at your Super Bowl party is...
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Hanky Panky
Although most of us shoehorn ourselves into one of the two political parties, at least for purposes of voting, the fit is rarely perfect as...
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Chuckles for the Win
Perhaps my main disappointment in the Ninth Circuit decision finding California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional is that they couldn't wait a week to release...
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Partners on the Journey
In late January I had the pleasure of celebrating my mother's 80th birthday as we pulled away from Cozumel (all passengers accounted for, thank you...
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Solitary Confinement
After coming out to my mother during college, she and I entered into one of those melancholy conversations familiar to so many of us who...
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Dissing the President
''Get your goddamn finger out of the president's face.'' That was my first thought upon seeing the photo of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) with...
