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AC360 digs into the dark world of “reparative therapy” in “The Sissy Boy Experiment”
Posted on June 8, 2011 | No CommentsHow hard is it to love a 5-year-old child unconditionally, or a child of any age for that matter? If you believe God created each of us, how do you... -
American Winter: The Right’s War on Education and Contraception
Posted on May 30, 2011 | 1 CommentIt’s a shocking historical juxtaposition. The pro-democracy movement known as the Arab Spring is in significant part a consequence of rising literacy and declining birth rates in the Mideast. Meanwhile,... -
Good Will, Good Faith, Good Grief
Posted on September 12, 2010 | 1 CommentGiven an understanding that politics is not much more than war without weapons (usually), it shouldn’t be surprising that there’s a lot of ill will involved. Still, it seems today... -
Requiem for Reality
Posted on August 23, 2010 | No CommentsEmerson said, “…wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things.” It’s in his essay, “Nature,” and he was talking about the sacrifice of sacred truth... -
Mark Twain on the Interview
Posted on July 11, 2010 | No CommentsIn a newly discovered essay, Mark Twain takes down interviewers of all stripes. Take that O overpaid interrogators of contemporary American media. When the guy who quipped that Wagner’s music... -
Moonshine
Posted on November 9, 2009 | 13 CommentsWilliam Tyndale once ridiculed the poor logic of a 16th Century blowhard by writing that, “the proof of his whole conclusion…hangeth by moonshine.” Tyndale of course, ultimately became a victim... -
Balloon Boy and GOP Press Strategy
Posted on October 20, 2009 | 5 CommentsLost in the hoohah over the Colorado balloon boy incident is the simple fact that the strategy is practiced daily by a GOP that long-ago sacrificed truth to their inflated... -
The (Media-Assisted) Rise of the Christian Right: And Now the Fall
Posted on October 19, 2009 | 4 CommentsBack in the late 1980s, I had a conversation with Molly Ivins about the religious right. I think they were calling themselves the Moral Majority then, doublespeak for being neither....