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[...]
Category: Opinion
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.[...]
Stand Up Against Bullying
By Mike Kastner Monday, Nov. 14, was the first event held by the Stony Brook Stand Up charter. I had the great pleasure of being a part of that event[...]
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[...]
Letter on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Concerns
To Whom it May Concern, At first when I tried to start writing this, I worried that there was no point. What purpose is there is writing about a problem[...]
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[...]