Monthly Archives: December 2013

Russia, India Tackle The Gays

Robert Oscar Lopez writes: Russia remains stalwart in its laws that aim to curb the influence of the West’s gay-friendly culture on Russian youth. Meanwhile, last week, in a stunning turn of events, India’s high court reinstituted a nineteenth-century law … Continue reading

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Leon Wieseltier Profile

Lloyd Grove wrote for the March 1995 edition of Vanity Fair: New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier is the egghead boy toy of such glamorous powers as Barbara Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, and Tipper Gore. But has he abandoned the life … Continue reading

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I Tend To Pursue My Passions To Destruction

It was a Sabbath afternoon. God, how I hated the Sabbath. We were Seventh-Day Adventists at Avondale College in Cooranbong (comes from the Aboriginal word “Kour-an-bong”, meaning “rocky bottom creek”) and you weren’t allowed to do anything fun on the … Continue reading

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Looking At Life Through A Dirty Screen

For the past two years, I’ve been looking out my window through a dirty screen. I have a lovely view but it is all smudged by the dirt in my screen. For the past few weeks, I’ve thought I should … Continue reading

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Edgar Bronfman Sr Is Dead

I read three of this guy’s books, including The Making of a Jew and The Making of a Businessman, and they were absolutely worthless. They added nothing. There was no point to publishing them. There were no original insights. There … Continue reading

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