Introduction: These things come in waves, of course. Every so often, when my adversaries think that what I am teaching is getting a little too much traction, they make yet another attempt at convincing ...
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Modern Art as Suicide Note
Introduction: This past week saw the unveiling—and unveiling is the word we are looking for—of a sculpture on the grounds of the Boston Common. The work is called "The Embrace" and it is purportedly ...
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Wedding As Adornment
Dear Darla, I hear from Nancy via your mother that Trent has proposed, and that you have accepted. So good job, everybody. Now we’re talking. If you will permit me just one more short letter, ...
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Don’t Waste Your Fifteen Minutes
Introduction: Andy Warhol once famously said that in the future everybody was going to get their fifteen minutes of fame. If you make the second and third rounds, as we here in Moscow have done a few times, a predictable thing then happens. What happens is that if the critics were puppies and kittens, all …
A Different Kind of Daddy Issue
Dear Darla, So I take it that things are getting a mite serious over there. Good for you. I trust you are smiling at him brightly? That apparently being the case, let me compare and contrast two ...
Courtship and Sexual Baggage
Dear Darla, So it is very good that your father is putting Trent through his paces. I take it that apart from the central question of your last letter, everything appears to be going swimmingly? So let’s get to it. As to that central question, you raised the issue of his past porn use generally …
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Idaho and the Red State Grooming Festival
Update: Zions Bank has withdrawn from participating in the festival. Second update: Idaho Department of Health and Welfare pulled its sponsorship as well. Third update: The kids drag event for this weekend has been postponed to a “later date.” Fourth update: ICCU has pulled out. Fifth update: Idaho Power decided to withdraw. Dear J , …
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Love, Honor, and Obey
Dear Darla, So his name is Trent, is it? Lucky dog. This means that you are now going to be thinking through a number of the things I have written in the earlier letters, but now doing so in a very ...
The Kill Switch and the Steering Wheel
Dear Darla, So in my last letter, I concluded with a reference to you meeting a genuine prospect, and I believe I even used the word “eventually.” And now your mother has informed my wife that ...
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The Rosetta Stone of the Sexes
Dear Darla, I want to spend at least a little bit of time talking about the nature of the differences between men and women. This is important because we have something of an optical illusion going, and it runs in both directions. If you were to travel to a foreign land, but one suitably exotic, …