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I think we could all use some good news right about now. Fortunately, we just got some. I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, [...]
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The Reason Rally, and Why It’s Good to Keep Hammering On About Diversity
March 29th, 2012 
Greta Christina There’s no way I can do just one Reason Rally report. It was something of a life-changing event, it was almost certainly a history-changing event, and I’m probably going to keep bringing ideas I got from it into my writing for some time. So here’s the Reason Rally Idea For Today. Those of us who [...]
Rush Limbaugh, Free Speech, and How Gloria Allred is Being a Jerk
March 12th, 2012 Greta Christina You’ve almost certainly heard about the Rush Limbuagh kerfuffle, in which the talk radio personality spent several days excoriating law student Sandra Fluke for testifying on Capitol Hill about employer-paid health insurance and contraception, and called her (among many, many other things) a “slut” and a “prostitute.” You may not yet have head that the [...]
Birth Control, and Why I’m Proud of Americans Right Now
March 6th, 2012 Greta Christina Three recent news stories. You’ve probably already heard about them ad nauseum, so I’ll just recap them quickly so I can get to my point. Story One: Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a foundation organized to fight breast cancer, recently pulled funding from Planned Parenthood, one of the major providers of breast cancer screenings [...]
Santorum Surges From Behind
January 4th, 2012 Greta Christina Yes, I do sometimes make weird sexual jokes. Not all the time… but sometimes. And tonight is one of those nights. It’s been a good night on Twitter. Jokes about Santorum are coming thick and fast. (Sheesh, even when you try to say something straightforward about the guy, it comes out dirty. There — I [...]
“Even the worst have their best”: Forbes’ Gene Marks, the 1%, and the Luxury of Second Chances
December 13th, 2011 Greta Christina “The very best students, even at the worst schools, have more opportunities.” “Is this easy? No it’s not. It’s hard. It takes a special kind of kid to succeed. And to succeed even with these tools is much harder for a black kid from West Philadelphia than a white kid from the suburbs. But it’s [...]
American Cancer Society Moves from Dodging to Covering Their Tracks
October 13th, 2011 Greta Christina And the plot thickens. The American Cancer Society is now not just evading the issue with bland denials and passive- aggressive little digs at atheists for bringing it up. They’re now apparently taking active steps to cover their tracks. I just got this email from Todd Stiefel, regarding the story about the American Cancer Society [...]
American Cancer Society Responds – Sort Of
October 12th, 2011 Greta Christina Well, the American Cancer Society has responded. If you can call it that. For two days, the American Cancer Society’s Facebook page has been deluged with posts from angry atheists — and some angry believers — about their refusal to let the Foundation Beyond Belief participate as a national team in the Relay for Life, [...]
Is Atheist Money Too Controversial for the American Cancer Society?
October 11th, 2011 Greta Christina The American Cancer Society may have turned down a potential half-million dollar donation because it came from a non-theistic organization. I’ll say this clearly, right up front: The American Cancer Society did not explicitly reject a massive donation offer from a non-theistic organization on the basis of it being a non-theistic organization. That was not [...]
Ingrid Nelson on Panel at GLBT History Museum, 9/29
September 27th, 2011 Greta Christina My beloved wife, Ingrid, is going to be part of a panel at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco, this Thursday, Sept. 29. The topic is a barn-burner: “All the Rage: Stories From the AB101 Veto Riot of 1991.” Here’s a little more info: At the height of the AIDS crisis and in the [...]
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