Monthly Archives: June 2006

The Culture War That Isn’t

Oh sure, the superficial issue is gay versus some canon of hetero-decency because the church always was “that way”. As far as anyone knows the original community had gay and straight as does the population in general and Abba is … Continue reading

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Hall of Shame

Violence in media is so pervasive that this note could have a thousand entries a day. I will merely keep it alive to record particularly damning examples of cultural complicity in the glorification and implicit justification of violence. Actors can … Continue reading

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Evaluating Philanthropy

I am virtually certain that the theory I have been developing — perhaps it is a thesis — will evolve as discourse on the Web. That theory is that the global reality we have today is essentially and foundationally the … Continue reading

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Scalia’s Stunning Incoherence

From the man who, more than anyone, gave us the Bush Administration in 2000, comes a ruling based on “scholarship” that has been repudiated by the source.

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Brief Thoughts and Screeds

Years ago when she first came to the NYTimes I started a little section of my then-site called Maureen Dowd Watch. It was a bemused acknowledgement that the Times was hiring and venerating a columnist whose writing might work on … Continue reading

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