The Sandusky scandal reminds us that abuse most often comes from family and trusted friends.
E.J. Graff
E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).
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More Holiday Lights!
Ho, ho, ho! (And be grateful you don’t live next to these houses.)
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Happy Hanukkah to All, and To All A Good Night
Did someone say potatoes deep-frying in grease?
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Vaclav Havel on Kim Jong-Il
Via @beingbrina, here is the Velvet Revolutionary’s comment on Dear Leader, in the Globe and Mail, 2004.
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Good vs. Evil
Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-Il were a study in contrasts—one a leader who inspired greatness, the other a dictator who instilled fear.
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Friday Miscellany
A conservative mayor unintentionally outs himself, obesity drops among NYC schoolchildren, and every U.S. writer says goodbye to Christopher Hitchens.
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Your Brain Is Racist
Could race conceivably influence presidential pardons? Surely not!
