Growing up gay-friendly

Fellow parents, if you’re wondering how you can help your child grow up to be a little less afflicted by homophobia than the current generation, you’ll want to read this guest entry at Lawrence Lessig’s blog, Love, Family, and Fairness, or How to...

Free the Beethoven Nine!

The BBC is giving away all nine Beethoven symphonies, free for the downloading. (Hear them the way Beethoven meant for them to be heard: through those cheap $5 speakers Dell threw in with your computer.) A very classy (and classical) move on the Beeb’s...

On same-sex marriage, no Pat answers

Remember the lawyer on “Ally McBeal” who could never say why he was refusing to accept a particular proposal, beyond saying he wasn’t “comfortable” with it? He could have been the poster child for a lot of the opponents of same-sex...

Books

I’ve been tagged. Not in the Alex sense, but in the “You’re it, sucker!” sense. (I act all grumpy about it, but it’s kinda nice to feel included. Sniff. Thanks, JB.) So, the book meme. How many books do you own? A lot fewer than I once...

We don’t talk anymore.

Politics lends itself to hyperbole, especially when you’re competing for the public’s attention via a media that’s much more interested in Peter MacKay’s love life than it is in, say, homelessness or energy policy. Progressive politicians and...
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