Month: August 2006
The Beloit College Mindset List ~ fascinating
Beloit, Wis. – A rite of autumn is under way with the arrival of first-year students at thousands of colleges and universities for registration. Most 18-year-old students entering the class of 2010 this fall were born in 1988. They grew up with a mouse in one hand and a computer screen as part of their …
Has Canada Got the Cure?
Alec had open heart surgery about 4 years ago and so he is on meds for that. I have adult onset epilepsy (7 grand mal seizures since 1998) and I was recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol. I take medications for those. And both of us have claudication. “a circulation problem that causes …
The Reverend William Howard Melish was one executor of my father’s estate
The house once belonged to communists: Mary Jane Melish, a distant cousin of the Marshalls, and her husband, an Episcopal priest named William Howard Melish, who oversaw the awarding of the Stalin Peace Prize (the communists’ alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize) in 1953. In 1943, he joined the board of the National Council of …
article: I Want Your Sex
The world of men can be divided into two groups: Those who feel empty after the completion of a one night stand and those who roll over and go to bed feeling completely satisfied. This emotional divide among males is equally as dramatic as the more publicized difference in sexual orientation between gay and straight …
article: Same-sex marriage is surely a civil right
Many blacks oppose such unions for religious reasons, but bigotry is bigotry, even if it’s cloaked in faith. Blacks should know this better than most. and The fight for gay rights is like our civil rights struggle, however, and it’s hypocritical for groups that have had to fight long and hard to win their own …
article: Is Marriage Rational?
In the debate over who can marry, both sides imbue the institution of marriage with an importance it neither deserves nor possesses. Back in 1983, I sold my own wedding. My mother, a lifelong New Yorker, refused to make a trip to California, so in exchange for moving the location of my wedding to Long …
“Out of the Margins” ~ on the experiences of LGBTQ youth in foster care ~ press release & article
Press Release: Lambda Legal and Child Welfare League of America Launch Report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth in Foster Care: Out of the Margins documents the experiences of LGBTQ youth in foster care across the country. (Washington D.C., August 16, 2006) — Today, Lambda Legal and the Child Welfare League of America …