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  • Court Time

    By on January 26, 2012

    So my television viewing this past week or so has given me a front-row seat to an intense competition, where the protagonists shift wildly between...

  • DCTC's Chief Problem

    By on January 25, 2012

    The words rolled off her tongue like a well-rehearsed mantra, ''We'd like to see all of those folks who are in that high-risk environment find...

  • Foolish Thing Desire

    By on January 19, 2012

    A few years ago, before I began dating my husband, my then-boyfriend took me to a summer cookout with a local gay Asian group. It...

  • Minister at Midnight

    By on January 19, 2012

    Anthony Evans is an anti-gay minister who claims to head a vast network of black churches and sends me frequent updates on his plans. On...

  • Friendly Fire

    By on January 12, 2012

    ''Some of my best friends are '' is deservedly one of the most mocked phrases in the English language, given that it...

  • Leather in the Lead

    By on January 12, 2012

    There's an axiom of which I never grow tired: Perspective is everything. I think I'm an ethical person; others would cast me into the pits...

  • Raucous Caucus

    By on January 5, 2012

    If nothing else, the Iowa caucuses kicked off the year with an inadvertently entertaining bang. After months of a rotating circus of second-tier candidates taking...

  • Times Square Tantrums

    By on January 5, 2012

    Not since Sinéad O'Connor ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992 have so many believers been so...

  • Just Gone

    By on January 5, 2012

    Any lump of coal would be difficult to swallow, but the one I got the day after Christmas left me stunned. Marty Davis, publisher and...

  • Days Gone By

    By on December 29, 2011

    To get the cliché out of the way, looking back over a just-completed year is generally an exercise in indulging our own perspectives. Those of...

  • Tree Topping

    By on December 22, 2011

    It took us six years of searching to finally find a solution to one of our most vexing annual problems of the holiday season. Namely,...

  • Amen, Hitch

    By on December 22, 2011

    Like countless others, I posted a tribute on Dec. 16 to writer Christopher Hitchens, who died the previous day at age 62. Someone on Facebook...

  • Past Imperfect

    By on December 15, 2011

    My life ended on an early December evening in 1987 when one of my fraternity brothers came into my frat-house bedroom and asked me, ''Are...

  • Xmas Column

    By on December 15, 2011

    The American Family Association is mad at Banana Republic. They're also mad at Family Dollar and Radio Shack and a handful of others. Seems these...

  • Red and Circuses

    By on December 8, 2011

    One of the more amusing sidelines in the ongoing quest for the Republican presidential nomination has been watching the blogs and media run out of...