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May '05
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Is That a Shiv in Your Pocket, Or...?
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn was not surprised that the Fourth District Court of Appeals last month upheld a California Department of Corrections ban on depictions of frontal nudity in materials available to prisoners. |
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Apr '05
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Spring Is in the Air....
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn has always urged caution against anthropomorphizing animal actions. Ants that keep aphids in underground fungus plantations are more accurately said to live in symbiotic relations with their fellow insects rather than engaging in "slavery" to speak of slave aphids is
to attribute a human institutional construct to a far-removed relationship established in an entirely different organic context. |
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Mar '05
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Baby Sodomites
By: Dawn Ivory
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Thanks to the alert reader who sent Dawn a squib detailing how five elementary school students in Kentucky are facing sodomy charges. |
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Mar '05
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Gigolo Journalism
By: Dawn Ivory
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Just when you think that the Bush/Cheney/Rove cabal couldn't possibly come up with new ethical nadirs, they surprise you! |
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Feb '05
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All employees must...?
By: Dawn Ivory
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A group called the Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch has awarded its "wackiest warning label of the year" trophy to a household products manufacturer prudent enough to alert buyers of the their toilet brush that aid brush is "not to be used for personal hygiene." As if. |
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Feb '05
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Rectify the language
By: Dawn Ivory
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Once upon a time, the "liberation" in gay liberation stood for freedom freedom from anti-sex laws, from police harassment, from choking social expectations. |
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Feb '05
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What's that address?
By: Dawn Ivory
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Thanks to the regular reader who sent in a delightful newsclip from an on-line South African paper. |
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Jan '05
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Overheard...
By: Dawn Ivory
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A faithful reader reports an amusing conversation overhead at said reader's local YMCA: two young brothers were changing after a basketball drill. |
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Jan '05
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Celebrate
By: Dawn Ivory
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When Dawn was in college, at a prestigious Ivy League skool, students of government were taught about "captured agency syndrome." |
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Dec '04
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In a blue state..
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn managed to resist the temptation to open a vein after the election debacle. Sure, America has survived bitterly acrimonious elections before (think Jefferson
v. Adams, 1800). |
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Nov '04
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Gluttony or lust?
By: Dawn Ivory
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After extensive study, a Purdue University sociologist, Kenneth Ferraro, has concluded that church-goers tend to be fatter than non-goers. |
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Nov '04
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The foundation of marriage: money
By: Dawn Ivory
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Marriage as in institution is in bad shape. |
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Nov '04
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'Stem cells,' part two...
By: Dawn Ivory
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As candidates Kerry and Bush disagreed over stem cell research, Dawn was eager for a question about Food and Drug Administration approval for "Apligraf," a living bandage composed of human cells cultured from foreskins from human infants and collagen from cows. |
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Oct '04
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Double standard
By: Dawn Ivory
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The Boston Globe, that puritanical rag that has spent untold resources tracking down every Bay State priest who ever touched a teenager's thigh in the last five decades... |
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Oct '04
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Cock and bull
By: Dawn Ivory
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Often it is easy to think Americans uniquely stupid, but then comes news from other English-speaking lands.... |
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Sep '04
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Shameless
By: Dawn Ivory
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Does the Republican Party have any shame when it comes to exploiting racism? |
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Aug '04
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George Bush's Resume
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn has been amused by how many "resumes" of Prezdunt Bush one can find on the Internet. Amongst the best... |
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Jul '04
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Language that thinks for you
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn continues to be fascinated by Victor Klemperer's
Language of the Third Reich. Klemperer, a Jew who-- astonishingly-- survived Hitler's Germany, published in 1946 a collection of
ways in which the Nazis defiled language. The current cabal in Washington, DC, reminds us of the on-going need to examine and expose "language that thinks for you." |
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Jun '04
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First, rectify the language...
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn has been fascinated to read I Will Bear
Witness, a diary of 1933-1941 Germany written by Victor Klemperer, a Jewish professor living in Dresden, who survived-- barely-- the
Hitlerian insanity. |
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May '04
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Gay guns
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn was interested to read of the political predilections of
self-identified lesbo Margaret Leber, a voter in Jeffersonville,
Pennsylvania. It seems Ms. Leber is "leaning towards Bush"
(please, no cheap jokes...) because she is
a devout gun toter. In fact, Madge is a member of Pink Pistols, a
homo gun group! |
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May '04
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"I won't... until I do"
By: Dawn Ivory
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Remember yesterday's darlings of the Religious right, those teens
pledging not to foul their body-temples with sex until they married? |
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Apr '04
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Paging Justice Scalia...
By: Dawn Ivory
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Thanks to the Los Angeles reader who sent a clip regarding a marriage issue that transcends the current homo-nuptials contretemps. |
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Apr '04
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Sex in context
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn is fond of repeating the late, great Boyd McDonald's on-target observation, "why does rape always seem to happen to people who don't want it?" Boyd was noting, of course,
both the irony that the brutality that many recoil from others find erotically irresistible, and the importance of context in evaluating sexual activity... |
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Mar '04
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Listen up, class!
By: Dawn Ivory
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If Dawn could ever be lured away from the prestige and lucre that accompany a glamorous career as a crafter of
bons mots, many have suggested employment as a journalism instructor. |
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Mar '04
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Readin', ritin', rithematic... and religion
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn has been amused to read that Georgia's Skool Superin-tendent has backed a plan to strike the word "evolution" from all textbooks and replace it with the phrase "biological
changes over time." |
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Feb '04
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Sic semper tyranus...
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn's readers and friends have often heard how little Dawn thinks of Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Reading David Donald's recent bio of America's first dictator only confirmed Dawn's opinion: Abe was first and foremost interested in power-- principles came a very distant second.
Mr. Emancipation Proclamation did not, for example, deign to free the slaves in the northern states key to his powerbase; those darkies, he stressed, would remain slaves if that's what it took to preserve his precious union. |
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Feb '04
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Eye don't think so
By: Dawn Ivory
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Initially, Dawn was intrigued by Bravo's hit "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." God knows many straight men could benefit from going a little gay. |
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Jan '04
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Brooking the Tide
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn is no fan of marriage, homo or hetero. Nonetheless, it has been heartening to read otherwise conservative columnists twisting and squirming as they struggle to indulge their homophobia whilst homos are campaigning to... become like them! |
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Dec '03
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The pictures made me do it
By: Dawn Ivory
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Dawn thanks the reader who sent a clip about a Kentucky group (or at least one crazed individual) that is publishing photos of patrons of a Jefferson County adult bookstore on a Web site. |
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Dec '03
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Doing it for Jesus
By: Dawn Ivory
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Evidently now that Kenneth Starr is no longer issuing lengthy, filthy, obscene reports about presidential pecker tracks, Republicans are growing thirsty for porn. |
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