I Just Want This Election to be Good (What’s So Wrong With That?)

by Richard Laermer, Guest Author It’s no secret that I lean left. I think the world of FDR and JFK, and I don’t know if I can stand to hear one more misguided ditto-head, all glassy-eyed and empty-headed, deify Reagan. (Really, people, my gag reflex can only take so much.)

Being Gay: Another Media Hook

By Richard Laermer,  Guest Author According to Clay (“Don’t Touch Me!”) Aiken, it is a big gay world out there. And that’s what the press wants you to believe. From my viewpoint, as a fuchsia card-carrying gay alpha male, every few years there’s a boondoggle in gay stories in America: the Supreme Court said OK

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Devolution: The Language of Life

Language is the currency of communication…The power inherent in language is within us all.

Why Reality TV Will Soon Die a Healthy Death

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author Besides writing the stories that Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck and A Scanner Darkly were all based upon, Philip K. Dick was also known for his own reality-bending brand of social commentary. His observation that “reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it”

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