Activist Against OverReaction · Columns
Hooray for Finals!
It’s that wonderful time of year again. Finals! If you have time to read this today, either you’re through with the bane of most students’ existences, or you’re procrastinating. In[...]
Category: Columns
Why Do We Need a Sassy Gay Friend?
I am accused of being a hipster on a day-to-day basis. One of the few times I will accept the accusation is when I huff about how I was watching[...]
Activist Against OverReaction · Columns
Tuition is Too Damn High
You know that guy who ran under “The Rent is Too Damn High Party” for governor of New York? That guy was crazy, but when I started thinking about my[...]
The Queer Guide to Surviving the Holidays
So now that the holiday season has officially descended upon us (I am one of the purists who won’t allow a chord of Christmas music in her home until after[...]
On Food, and What it May Constitute
Pizza, says Congress, is a vegetable. Pepper spray, says Fox News host Megyn Kelly, is a food product. The expanding definition of the word “food” never ceases to amaze me.[...]
Activist Against OverReaction · Columns
Let’s Talk (Not Yell) About Penn State
I’m going to say something both wildly popular and wildly unpopular in one phrase: firing Joe Paterno was stupid. Now, before the moralists get on their soapboxes and the football[...]
Final Predestination
Being one of The Queers, I try to keep an ear tuned for any new developments in the state of the movement or discussing the state of the movement itself.[...]
The Word of the Week is “Scandal”
Over the last few months, a number of upstart movements and candidates have dominated polls and news coverage by being both radical and a bit less than controlled. Now, seemingly[...]
Activist Against OverReaction · Columns
The Suicide of the Movie Industry
You know how something will be going well for one company, so then all the other companies decide they should get in on it, too? No, I’m not talking about[...]
The LGBTA Ally Team Meeting
Team, sit down. You may have noticed that I sent all the queer folk out of the room to go play with the box of puppies I brought in today.[...]