Is it just political expediency or do Cheney and Kinzinger truly deserve to be punished by conservative metrics? — It’s no secret that politicians on both sides of the aisle often do things of questionable integrity in order to achieve the results that they want. Sadly, this type of rationalization almost seems to be a part of the job. However, the Republican National Committee (RNC) may be seen by…

You may see him as a beacon of moderation now, but in his own time he was considered extreme — “Why is equality so assiduously avoided? Why does white America delude itself, and how does it rationalize the evil it retains? The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the Negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth…

Old narratives don’t tell the whole story, and that doesn’t help anybody — If someone asked you to picture a rapist, chances are very good that most people would envision a man. That’s because most people have probably been under the impression that more than 90% of sexual violence is perpetrated by men — against both women, men, and others. For years, that’s…

Guys like this would be funny if they weren’t such a function of misogyny — I recently received a comment on my story The Concept of the Human ‘Alpha Male’ is a Recent Social Construct that was so non-specific and frankly, so non-sensical that I felt compelled to ask the writer if he was perhaps drunk when he wrote it. That you claim copyright for…

Unless you are a porn star, probably not, but here are some things to consider anyhow — Anal sex has always been around. In ancient Egypt, it was used as a method of birth control. Pottery from the ancient Peruvian civilization, the Moche, depicts male/female anal intercourse more than any other sex act and the ancient Sumerians also engaged freely in anal sex and did not regard…

I’m loving this book, except for this aspect — I’m almost finished reading a novel that was written by a friend of a friend. I have to hand it to her, it’s a real page-turner — a supernatural-tinged murder mystery taking place in New Orleans. I really like the story and the characters and I’m having a hard time…