I wrote this piece a couple of years ago. I came upon it again today, and I'm sorry to say that it is still relevant ( Read more... )

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Some years back an excellent editorial on bisexuality and bisexual exclusion within the lgbt community came out in Bay Windows, a major Boston lgbt newspaper. It often surprises straight people to learn that bisexuals are treated so poorly by many lesbian and gay folks. Yet they are. Andrew Rapp, a gay man and editor in chief at the paper in ( Read more... )

(Ok, so my Southern protestant roots are showing ( Read more... )

A State of Ill Health

Wednesday June 13, 2007
The GuardianThis is a public health warning. If you are the chief executive of the Humana or Aetna health insurance companies, if you are a medical lobbyist on Capitol Hill, oh, and if you are Hillary Clinton, you have just two more weeks of normal life left ( Read more... )

A recent report by the Congressional Research Service helps to put the executive pay issue into a real-world context. CEOs make, on average, 179 times as much as rank and file workers, double the 90-to-1 ratio in 1994, according to the agency's calculations ( Read more... )

The Angry Black Woman says:

Things You Need to Understand #5 - Color BlindnessWhen white people say ( Read more... )

In the mid 1960's a conservative coalition began to form in this country which, by the 1980's, had overturned fifty years of political control by the Democratic Party. The Democrats came to power with the New Deal coalition of labor, poor people, liberals, socialists, and others in the 1930's. The coalition was cemented by Franklin Roosevelt ( Read more... )

20 March 2007 ( Read more... )

My former employer, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, has issued a report on bisexuality and bisexual health together with BiNet USA and the Fenway Institute in Boston. It is long overdue, but, based on my initial reading, extremely well done ( Read more... )