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...That's a far cry from the climate in most of the U.S., where - despite the recent election of Annise Parker, a gay woman, as mayor of Houston, America's fourth largest city - honesty can still end a gay politician's career. Openly gay politicians such as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk began winning seats in U.S. cities with large gay populations in the 1970s. Progress has since slowed, says David Rayside, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He believes that the relative strength of incumbency in the U.S. creates a barrier to the corridors...
...far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like The Godfather or Dog Day Afternoon or The Graduate. You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write...
...far as the full-contact listening that Skype requires, I don't think we want that all that often from people who aren't already in our house. The fact is, we don't really want to see other people that badly. That's why it's so difficult to make plans with them. That, plus texting times and places back and forth takes forever...
Maybe all the stuff we thought we wanted in the future sucks. Flying cars would block our light, food pills would make Gordon Ramsey's screaming even more preposterous, and those moving sidewalks just give me another reason to hate fat people at airports. Far better is to have control over our most valuable commodity: time. Sure, we complain about being busy, but that's pretty great as long as we get to choose when we do things. The truth is, my editor will never even call me. She'll just e-mail. Which is actually fine with me. There...
While many lucky students are enjoying climates far from frozen Cambridge, the wintry weather is causing some trouble for the Lampoon...