14 February 2012

A New Companion?

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I can't believe it's already been a month and a day since Charlie died.   Since then, I've vacillated between getting another...
13 February 2012

One Governor Gets It, Another Doesn't

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Being Catholic is not an excuse.   It seems that Christine Gregoire understands that.  But someone in that foreign country, er, state, acro...
11 February 2012

Justine's Knee (Apologies to Eric Rohmer)

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I took a bit of a fall the other day.  Now my knee is swollen and bruised.  I've been to the doctor, who said "it feels worse than ...
10 February 2012

What If They Knew?

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Yesterday, I was talking with friend of a colleague who dropped by our office.  This friend, whom I'll call "Amanda" is pregna...
09 February 2012

When Pierre Is Allowed To Become Pauline But Can't Go Home

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Imagine that you've just won the right to do something about which you've always dreamed--in this case, serving in the Armed Forces ...
07 February 2012

Forever Seventeen At Two Hundred

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Seventeen and two hundred. All right, you ask, what is the connection between those two numbers? Well, I'll tell you:  It's Char...
06 February 2012

Revving Up

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We were in the department office after our evening classes.  Most students had already left the campus, and Alexie and I were looking forwar...
05 February 2012

A Women's Super Bowl?

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If you were to say "women's football," most people would think of the "other" football, a.k.a. soccer.  That's u...
04 February 2012

Once A Bully, Always A Bully?

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What is a bully?  Most people, I think, would agree that "people who beat up on people who have less power than themselves" is a p...
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03 February 2012

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Today's post is going to be a rant that will lead to a long rhetorical question.  So consider yourself forewarned! Ever since I can re...
02 February 2012

Hate Escalates At Montclair State

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Last Thursday, anti-gay graffiti was found by the LGBT Center of Montclair State University in New Jersey.  The following day, a threatenin...
01 February 2012

Upholding The "Norms"

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Writing about Kitty Genovese, and the way it was covered in the media, has made me think more about the ways in which maleness, heterosexual...
31 January 2012

More About Kitty Genovese

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I realize now that yesterday I overlooked something very important when I was writing my post about Kitty Genovese:  the gender power struct...
30 January 2012

Kitty Genovese: A Hate Crime?

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Tonight, on my way home from work, I rode through Kew Gardens .  George Gershwin lived there; Paul Simon and Jerry Springer were born and ra...
29 January 2012

It Ain't Dead Yet

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When you get to be my age, you realize there isn't an idea that's so bad that nobody will try to keep it alive. In fact, if it...
28 January 2012

More About ROTC At York

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To follow up on my post from yesterday:  A professor who's involved with curriculum development says, in essence, that the ROTC program...
27 January 2012

ROTC At York: Who's Serving Whom?

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Yesterday, I learned that there's talk about bringing an ROTC program to York College . Since opening its doors in 1966, the college...
26 January 2012

Reconciliation

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One of the nice things about being my age is that, if you're lucky, you can start to reconcile all kinds of things that seemed irreconc...
25 January 2012

Portrait Of The Feline As A Real Man

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Here's a picture of a Real Man: He's not afraid to go into a lady's boudoir.  You know how some guys get that look on t...
23 January 2012

To The Santorums

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Last week, Annette Gross's " Open Letter to Karen Santorum " appeared on The Bilerico Project. I've provided a link to ...