SO FAR LEFT, WE ARE RIGHT
Hysteria over New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s alleged lap band surgery has coupled with coverage of Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries’ interview in which he admitted, “I don’t want larger people shopping in the store,” into what I’d like to call America’s latest round of bigotry: Weigh-cism. Not that fat shaming in America is [...]
We drink in our news from the sources we trust, through the lens we feel comfortable with, amidst the people with whom we fit.
“Beautiful!” a man next to me breathed, but all I saw were the dead children of Newtown.
I hope that the seeds we plant today will take root and that the power to hurt won’t be abused by my son or my daughter.
The 1990s brought forth a bastion of political correctness. All at once, we were forbidden from saying “black,” “retard,” and “fag,” in lieu of the more acceptable terms African-American, mentally-challenged, and homosexual. The politically correct terminology was so successful and so thorough that the words looked weird written on the page. It was uncomfortable to [...]
Two women have reached the forefront of womanly consciousness and have thrown upheaval into the feminist movement. Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayers have pitted feminist against feminist in an ugly battle that asks the age old question, “Can Women Have it All?”
The President is not Octomom, yet beginning in the Clinton nineties, the media has done little to distinguish between the two in channels like gonzo radio and fluff journalism.
If my son was raised in a loving home with me and a female partner, then I would not be allowed to wear the uniform. If I preferred soft breasts to hard chests, the Scouts would disapprove, and I would not be invited to be a leader.
I’m as sick as anyone hearing about the fiscal cliff and I’m guessing Congress was as well, which is why they set up the sequester as a looming bipartisan disaster to force their hands into creating a workable budget.
Jed Morey is the Owner of Morey Publishing, LLC, publisher of magazines, journals and websites. He serves as the publisher of the Long Island Press, LI\'s Cultural Arts and Investigative News Journal. Other titles in Morey Publishing\'s Private Label portfolio include Milieu Magazine, Long Island Organic, LongIslandPress.com and this site.
