Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
In which The Gay Recluse updates his informal but rather telling quantitative analysis of Modern Love, the weekly Style Section (of The Times) column in which openly gay writers almost never appear, and even less frequently describe a romantic relationship. This week’s piece: May I Have This Dance? by Owen Powell Subject: A soldier in […]
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Tags: Daniel Jones, Gay Modern Love, Iraq, Modern Love, Owen Powell, Soldiers, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Frank Rich/The Petraeus-Crocker Show Gets the Hook The Short Version: Even I can’t get outraged over the Iraq war anymore. In his words: “Yet I must confess that, sitting in MoMA, I kept looking beyond the frame of Mr. Morris’s movie as well.” […]
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Tags: Frank Rich, Global Warming, Iraq, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, The Clintons, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Bob Herbert/Losing Our Will The Short Version: The war in Iraq, recession, decaying infrastructure — OMG, we’re so fucked! In his words: “It’s both tragic and embarrassing.” Score: D- (Depressing) Herbert is not necessarily wrong about anything he says, but he’s not right, […]
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Tags: Bob Herbert, Gail Collins, Iraq, The New York Times, The Olds
In which The Gay Recluse would like to think “outside the box.” Heating bills keep getting higher and higher, and despite global warming, there are days when it’s still very, very cold. Freezing air rushes through open windows, and we wonder: what can we possibly do about it? Any complex problem would seem to require […]
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Tags: Efficiency, February, Heating Bills, Idiocy, Iraq, Oil, Problem Solving, Washington Heights, Wind, Windows
On One Important Difference Between Pets and Children and What It Tells Us About U.S. Foreign Policy
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that we have two couples, roughly similar in every indicator of socioeconomic status, and that money is not a determinative factor in this hypothetical. Let’s also assume that both are offered the opportunity 1) to have (or adopt) a child, or 2) to adopt a pet. A further […]
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Tags: Children, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Pets, Schopenhauer, USA, War
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