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Gov. Steve Beshear of Kentucky filed a delightful brief with the Supreme Court on March 27 in defense of "traditional marriage" or "natural marriage" or whatever dog-whistle the bigots are using this week to identify the sentiment, "I get to marry whoever I want but I think your love is…

A commenter on my post about the Planet Fitness story wanted to know why the same accolade I gave Planet Fitness for their inclusive stand should not be accorded a bakery that refuses to bake a wedding cake because they disapprove of the bride and bride.

The Planet Fitness in Midland County, Michigan recently had a conflict between one of its core company values and one of its customers.  In the kind of move that I wish we'd see more often, they fired the customer. Yvette Cormier said she felt threatened…

The manbox does not give up its captives lightly. Consider Andrew O'Hagan, who wrote this tragic piece for the NY Times magazine a couple weeks ago. O'Hagan has got the weepies, he's got 'em bad. He's not allowed to smoke or absorb other carcinogens or eat bags…

As you might have read, I am no great fan of "verbing" -- the act of changing words that are different parts of speech into verbs by simply using them that way. To quote Calvin, "it weirds language." But I heard a word verbed recently…