Modern-day campaigns for civil rights and equal citizenship for queer folks tend to conjure up a progressive trajectory from exclusion to inclusion: from a dark past when the homosexual was excluded from equal citizenship (or forced to live closeted) to a not-yet-realized future in which one’s...
via ACLU
Last week outside Trader Joe’s I was accosted by charity muggers from the ACLU.
This happens regularly in Coolidge Corner and I generally ignore them across the board. I make it a rule not to support any organization via street harassment, even if they’re a group with...
I woke up yesterday to back-to-back stories on NPR about the congressional fights over last year’s budget and the impending battle in Washington over the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The Republican sound-bites were all about how the Bush-era tax cuts shouldn’t be allowed to expire...