Essay: Anti-trans hatred in America not unlike Anti-Jewish hatred in Germany

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Hatred of transgender people, however, has taken a dark and unusual turn, one which strongly resembles the Nazi Party’s hatred of Jews. This particular hatred has become so strong, so virulent in recent years that legislatures across the country are passing any kind of law they can to take away any kind of right they think of from transgender individuals. The goal of this hatred, in the words of 2023 CPAC speaker Michael Knowles is: “to eradicate transgenderism.”

The delicate art of finding role models. Hint: Sometimes, you just get lucky!

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Monday, April 1, 2024

From out in the driveway where I had just pulled in, I can hear her practicing. The sounds of my daughter’s electric piano pushes through the closed windows. I recognize it instantly. She’s playing Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.”

The Soapbox: Preventing suicide by supporting LGBTQ+ youth

Monday, September 23, 2024Monday, April 1, 2024

“Lives are at stake.” This simple sentiment suddenly brought me back to 2008 and the aftermath of my then 19-year-old and not-yet-out-to-me non-binary child’s suicide attempt. My world shattered. I found myself sobbing in my car – and living in near-constant fear that they would make another attempt.

The Government wants to be the parent

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Monday, April 1, 2024

Who doesn’t want to protect children? I want to protect children…but this bill is NOT about protecting children, it’s about government overreaching and taking decision-making away from the parents/caregivers.

Pop’s Art: ‘…and by his stripes we are healed’

Thursday, December 4, 2025Sunday, March 31, 2024

Easter Sunday is a Christian holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, accepted by Christians as the Son of God. This is the divergence between followers of the Old Testament and the New.

The Soapbox: NH House again votes to make displacing disabled and aging people easier

Monday, September 23, 2024Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Proponents of this bill want you to believe it is about contracts. That is far from the truth. This is about human beings who have a right to security and the ability to envision their futures without having to worry that they will have to start over again and again because they ask for a reasonable accommodation, have children with support needs, or acquire a disability.

Tiny White Box: ‘Too Wonderful for Anybody to Realize You’

Saturday, September 14, 2024Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Please excuse the rest of this column. I take pride in my contrarian nature, in my ability to identify clouds on any horizon. Today, though, is not a day for me to be philosophical or intellectual. It’s a day to freaking celebrate!

Tiny White Box: Will Schroedinger’s sword cut Damocles cat?

Monday, October 14, 2024Tuesday, March 26, 2024

You haven’t heard from me in a few months. I do hope you enjoyed the respite, because that silence has ended, beginning today with a mea culpa. I apologize to all the InkLink readers who contacted me offering support, to the members of Hope Nation who kept me in their prayers, to the countless folks in the larger recovery community who sent texts and emails of love and support, to my old Army buddy, Ryszard Guziewicz, to the InkLink’s Editor/Publisher/Grand-Poohbah, Carol Robidoux, and to dozens of others. I am sorry. I didn’t respond to many of your inquiries about my health, each sent with love and compassion. It was wrong but necessary to have isolated in a cocoon composed of my wife and daughters, along with a very small group of close friends. Thank you all, and please accept my apology.

Move over, Mr. Welles, ‘Road House’ needs a seat

Wednesday, July 3, 2024Monday, March 25, 2024

Gyllenhaal shows off all of his Academy Award-nominated chops as the soft-spoken Elwood Dalton. Notice that the character does not have the same given name as Swayze’s character in the original film. Gyllanhaal’s Elwood Dalton is not, in fact, the same character as Swayze’s James Dalton, although they’re both referred to simply as “Dalton.”

The destruction of DEI

Sunday, June 16, 2024Monday, March 25, 2024

Already in 2024, Zoom, Home Depot, Wayfair, Snap, and Lyft have all cut their DEI teams by at least 50%, some completely eliminating the roles. At the educational levels, we’ve seen Harvard, University of Florida, and Johns Hopkins all eliminate the entirety of their DEI teams, or fold under the pressure of political interference while accepting the termination or resignation of their most visible DEI leaders and advocates – the vast majority of whom are women of color, and Black women to be specific.