Parting Glances If Ever a Wiz that Wasn't!
Contrary to rumors circulating for years in Story Bookland Weekly Tabloid there never was any real friction between Dorothy, Cowardly Lion, Tin Woodsman, [...]
Transmissions: Standing Up to Sit Down
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith We're very clearly under attack. Buoyed by the Trump victory and control of all branches of the government — and in spite of the [...]
Creep of the Week: Gordon Klingenschmitt
Something truly terrible happened in Minnesota. An elementary school teacher and his husband were busted for having sex with underage teenagers and filming [...]
Parting Glances: Bambi, Roosevelt, JFK, Trump
I recall a New Yorker cartoon that appeared years ago. Picture, if you will: two or three animals are gathered in a sunlit forest. A cute rabbit looks up to a [...]
The Rising Cost of Hate Speech
By now, many of you have heard about the Kim Burrell scandal and her canceled appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." (And if you haven't, I wrote about it [...]
Creep of the Week: Samuel Rodriguez
The Trump transition team doesn't want this to get out, but I got my hands on the questionnaire given to the clergy wanting to pray at his inauguration. It [...]
The Year We Fight Back
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith By now, the crowds have dispersed from Times Square, leaving behind heaps of confetti, deflated balloons and the odd, broken pair of [...]
Parting Glances: A Rose by Any Other Name
There's a joke about the gay guy who goes for his annual medical checkup. He coughs three times and bends over for the proverbial Pokemon. The proc-doc finds [...]