Archive for March 2011

The notion that ‘the notion that black people are more homophobic is bullshit’ is bullshit    (2011.03.08)

Why? Because they’re “more vulgar” with their “bigotry”

Just how many ways are there to describe Rammstein?    (2011.03.06)

Claire Berlinski’s Times article on Rammstein was a warm-up act for her later book chapter on that topic. Also! She knows she’s a knockout

Ken Finkleman: Canada’s most contemptuous man    (2011.03.05)

Canada has a lot to answer for in its endemic tall-poppy syndrome. Still, nobody in Canada is less deserving of fame than Ken Finkleman

What keeps gay athletes in the closet? Journalists, for a start    (2011.03.04)

Straight reporters will do anything to keep us in the closet. They’re also the last to realize that, as a topic for journalists, “gays in sports” is over

This Week in Fagonomics (I)    (2011.03.02)

A recap of stories lazily reiterating the claim that gays are rich, which we aren’t.

‘The Last Photograph of Cat’    (2011.03.01)

Mr. SICHA offers the year’s strongest writing on animals