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Monday, February 13, 2012

Bipolar day

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Meteorologically, it's been a bipolar day, alternations of clear bright sunshine and grey cloudy torrents of rain. And those brief eer...
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Ideas and ideologies. Oh, and Jews

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Dan Blatt, of GayPatriot, is a huge fan of Ronald Reagan. And Reagan once wrote that "the heart and soul of conservatism is libertaria...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

SF in Feb

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It was this kind of February weather in 1988, bright, brilliant, blueskyed, breezy, temperate...that made me want to leave the grey snow...

Multiculti mutterings

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There is/was an ethnic joke which was ok to tell because all the castmembers were White. No colored people* were harmed in the telling of th...

Who was that masked man?

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Cleaning out a closet, I found three essays I wrote during my doctoral days back in 1981 at the University of Toronto. These were called the...
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Do tell

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I visited PrayTell again. But only for five minutes. And I did not comment. My intention re that blog is to go a'commentin' no more....
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Fassbinder and Genet

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Fassbinder's last film was Querelle (1982), based on Genet's first novel. If you separate the story as told by the moving p...

Santayana

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This Spanish, American, Europhile and very likely homophile philosopher (1863-1952) is the source of the now-cliche, "Those who do ...
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Why are smart people so stupid?

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Well, a case could be made that I am Exhibit A. Be that as it may. A highly intelligent software designer, of Asian descent, on another site...

Improving on Jesus

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As a dogmatic and sacramental culture, I find Christianity pretty simpatico. As a moral system, not so much. And its not just the sexual res...
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