I’m tired of being angry. Democrats blast Americans who “elected crazy Donald Trump,” and Republicans blast liberals who “ruined the economy under Joe Biden.” I’m a Democrat because my top issue is human rights – the freedom for everyone to be who they are and live without fear, which includes some groups I don’t particularly […]
Read More →Article first appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, June 4, 2018 Circa 1979, I walked into a lesbian bar with a friend who fit that profile. Once inside, roughly 50 lesbians glanced at me — a man — before turning back to their drinks. I became invisible. But this isn’t about lesbians. It’s about racism. And […]
Read More →Originally published in The Orlando Sentinel, March 16, 2018 Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is the date-rape Christmas carol, as the singing man pushes a woman to stay because “it’s bad out there.” She even wonders “what’s in this drink?” in shades of a Bill Cosby accusation. My friend Gina loves this song and says my […]
Read More →Researchers at the University of the Phoenix spent a decade studying white men who profess hatred of other races – specifically the African American race – and they found a high correlation between penis size and white supremacist membership. “Specifically, the penises of white supremacists are quite a bit smaller than normal penises,” says head […]
Read More →My kid – my 31-year-old “kid” – co-directed a movie that, so far, is showing at film festivals in Toronto, Tel Aviv, Seattle and Provincetown. I attended the Seattle premiere last week, saw it twice on the big screen, and was impressed. Is my rave review of Susanne Bartsch: On Top the result of “It’s […]
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