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What can I possibly say about our privileged and packed corporate over class we’ve all felt but never seen the likes of. I have no proof of malfeasances or leading actors for this play, nor can I find a hero for the cause of breaking up this monopoly of our time.
Where is our Huey [...]

An article in the LA Times has me thinking about fear and danger (hat tip to Washington Monthly). 
LJ Williamson muses on the irrational, ravening fear that many parents have of sexual predators.  She writes:
Although statistics show that rates of child abduction and sexual abuse have marched steadily downward since the early 1990s, fear of these crimes [...]

Cliff Note: Yesterday, Troy wrote about “queers” serving in the military. I’ve never understood the movements decision to use that term. It sounds divisive to me. So I asked Troy about it. Btw: This photo illustrates my idea of a queer…until now.
Here is his response:
Cliff,
Let me give you a quick crash course on queer [...]

One of the leading queer-edge thinkers is Kenji Yoshino. His recent book, “Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights” is part memoir and part queer social history. Yoshino lays out the legal battle for LGBT liberation in the context of other civil rights movements. He parallels our collective progress with his own [...]

In her usual trenchant way, Elizabeth Wood summarizes the problem with discussion of sexuality in our society:
I keep thinking about this discussion we’ve been having about “protecting” people from sex, or sexually explicit material. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that quite often our efforts at protection do more harm [...]

The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance has decided to take the Culture Warriors at their word.
They’re proposing an intiative for Washington State Voters, I 957.  In response to a state court ruling:
. . . Andersen v. King County. This decision, given in July 2006, declared that a “legitimate state interest” allows the Legislature to limit [...]

I am one of those radical queers that Sen. Buttars and Gayle Ruzicka have been warning you about. I am an advocate for subversive social change. I promote a gay agenda. But this hasn’t always been the case.
I was once a faithful Mormon, and for a short period I was also a volunteer for Gayle [...]

I had a time warp experience yesterday. My husband, younger daughter and I all had lunch at Lamb’s Cafe downtown. Lamb’s Cafe is the oldest restaurant in Salt Lake City, established in 1919. I love eating there because the dark and heavy interior, combined with the old-fashioned booths and tablecloths and even the rack of [...]

As part of an earlier discussion, Caveat asked:
“How do we steer our ponderous educational contraption towards a more humane and less fundamentalist, path?”
With regard to public education, it’s important to understand that there is a swath of the American public that distrusts public education. To these folks, education is problematic because it teaches things [...]

Chances are good that a gay Utah teen was thrown out of his house by his parents today.  His parents, believing that being gay is sinful, wrong, a choice, and that his just going through a phase, are comforting themselves by reminding themselves that being gay is “un-natural.”  Safe within a system of prejudiced beliefs, [...]

Over at mydd, Matt has a great post about unions.
I’m quoting his entire first paragraph because it strikes me as so very right:
Whenever I spend time with people in unions, I get a very different picture of what this country looks like.  The political establishment spends a fair amount of time theorizing about messaging and how [...]