As homelessness has grown in the United States over the past two decades, so have laws that essentially criminalize those who have no home. In a misguided attempt to grapple with the phenomenon of people living on our streets, city governments have passed laws that make it illegal to sit, sleep and eat in public …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …