This week I am writing more in my ongoing series about truth telling, in which I am emphasizing directness and vulnerability. From my vantage point, sometimes I am exposed to too much information. The spot on my retina where the image of Kim’s Kardashian’s butt is burned, for example, suggests I really didn’t need to see it.…
Move around the floor in a Loco-motion (Come on baby, do the Loco-motion) Do it holding hands if you get the notion (Come on baby, do the Loco-motion) There’s never been a dance that’s so easy to do It even makes you happy when you’re feeling blue So come on, come on, do the Loco-motion…
At the 1992 Republican National Convention, Pat Buchanan delivered an inflammatory speech now known as “the culture war speech.” He said, “My friends, this election is about much more than who gets what. It is about who we are. It is about what we believe. It is about what we stand for as Americans. There…
Over the years of debate over Pro-choice or Pro-life positions on abortion rights, I have been struck by many issues that have ultimately taken me to positions I might not have gotten to without this very public struggle over women’s rights and women’s liberation. For example, I have learned through this struggle that some very…
In the mid-1980’s, I found myself on a journey that I had not anticipated. In one way I had started the journey in my late teens when I recall quite consciously deciding I was going to be a Renaissance Man, someone who could live by his wits and be good at many different things. I…
Chip Berlet and Frederick Clarkson have argued that “It would be nice if conservative White evangelicals called off the Culture Wars that they started and continue to aggressively pursue. It would be even nicer if liberal (and even some progressive) pundits stopped prematurely announcing the end of the Culture Wars and the demise of the…
Recently I approached a checkout lane in a local grocery store when I overheard the clerk and a sacker having this exchange: “You’re still making $9.25? You’re kidding! Why would I stay here as long as you have and hope for checker job, when that’s all you make?” These two guys, likely about 21 (clerk)…
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