All posts by Sean Bugg
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Watch and Learn
It's with some glee that I've read reports of women — angered by lawmakers pushing transvaginal probes and doctor-narrated ultrasounds prior to abortions, as well...
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Kirk Cameron tells Daily Beast “I’m not homophobic”
“I thought it was heartless, to tell you the truth, to take a few subjects, which are very important, he crammed it into a rapid-fire,...
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Meghan McCain: “you’re nobody” without a gay rumor
“Honey, you’re nobody unless you have a gay rumor about you.” Meghan McCain, blogger and daughter of Arizona Sen. John McCain (R), on rumors about...
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Southern Living
In the days leading up to Rick Santorum's Southern twofer of Alabama and Mississippi, there was a minor contretemps among some pundits about the polling...
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Review: Game Change
You know the difference between Sarah Palin and Frankenstein's monster? Neck bolts. Before you think that's a bald-faced insult to Palin – and whether that...
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So Sorry
There are few things in life as insulting as an insincere apology for an insult. We know this because it is one of life's guarantees...
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Higher Dread
Whether you breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night when Rick Santorum lost in Michigan or a sigh of disappointment that he didn't take out...
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Zimbabwe: “Not a country that makes friends with gays”
“We removed anything to do with homosexuals. We were all agreed that Zimbabwe is not a country that makes friends with gays.” Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana,...
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Too High a Price
Living in Virginia comes with a price. First, though, there are the benefits, the most important of which is that it makes my husband happy....
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Hanky Panky
Although most of us shoehorn ourselves into one of the two political parties, at least for purposes of voting, the fit is rarely perfect as...
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Chuckles for the Win
Perhaps my main disappointment in the Ninth Circuit decision finding California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional is that they couldn't wait a week to release...
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Five Dos and Five Don'ts for Mastering Valentine's Day
Not much is known of antiquity's Saint -- or Saints -- Valentine. Yet here we are, with Starbucks pushing hearts on paper cups, aisles of...
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Don't Do These Five Things for Valentine's
1. Don't Procrastinate We'll tell you right up front: If you're reading this during the mid-afternoon of Feb. 14, you might as well skip on...
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CNN suspends Roland Martin for “offensive” anti-gay Super Bowl tweets
Erik Wemple at the Washington Post reports this statement from CNN on Roland Martin’s Super Bowl tweets: “Roland Martin’s tweets were regrettable and offensive. Language...
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Solitary Confinement
After coming out to my mother during college, she and I entered into one of those melancholy conversations familiar to so many of us who...
