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Lisa Jain Thompson
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Thursday, 02 June 2011
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Sometimes I am sure that the whole thing is a plot by Catholic-raised Italian American women to take over the world. Madonna, Gaga, me. Something about our upbringing: too much garlic perhaps.
Too much Catholicism to work through growing up. Long lists of do’s and don’ts. Sins that will send you directly to hell. Hormones and body parts that question the church’s philosophies.
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 22 May 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA.That Bobby Dylan is turning 70 this month astonishes me. Depresses me. Reminds me I wrote my first column about him over the summer in 1965 when I was just 17 and Dylan was barely electric.
The teacher who nominally moderated the high school newspaper asked me why he was important. Why was I writing about a scruffy folk singer who dabbled in rock and roll?
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Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 01 May 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. A columnist must be mentally nimble, a lover of naked rugby, agile without constraint. Editors must be viewed as a necessary evil but one that in an ideal world would be seldom needed.
We are, after all and unlike Shakespeare, all too human and the frequency of my unblotted manuscripts ranges from seldom to somewhere south of infinity. I am nothing if not an irrational number.
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 24 April 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. Social conservatives use the term Homosexual Agenda to describe the advocacy of cultural acceptance and normalization of non-heterosexual orientations and relationships. Sort of like the Heterosexual Agenda but with less vaginal penetration and more anal sex.
Alternately, Daily Show host Jon Stewart defined the gay agenda as gay marriage, civil rights protection, Fleet Week expanded to Fleet Year, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance for when it's raining men, |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Friday, 15 April 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. When Sharon and I started TS-Si over a decade ago, the transsexual community (men and women born transsexual, medical doctors, therapists, scientists, researchers, and politicians) was divided into numerous dysfunctional activities and organizations.
Long term objectives, when they existed, were held hostage by an uncaring legion of tedious and petty territorial disputes as each group and party pursued their own individual political and social objectives.
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Wednesday, 06 April 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. I am not a believer. I see no proof that any god exists. But I owe my classical education to the Roman Catholic Church and a prep school run by the good Christian Brothers.
I harbor no resentment towards the Catholic Church even as I question its sometimes arbitrary reliance on a book written two millennium past and the guidance of aging popes and cardinals with agendas of their own.
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 13 March 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. After thirteen years of Catholic education, I am certainly aware that there is a distinctively Catholic, highly developed and coherent tradition on political conduct. Many of my core beliefs were seeded in the first and second grade... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Wednesday, 02 March 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. Outliers occurs by chance in any given population. The vast majority of women born and raised in the United States on American diets have heights that fall between 4 feet 11 inches and 5 feet 10 inches with an average height around ... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 27 February 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. You may have noticed there are crazies out there. A lot of them. Walking down the sidewalk in your neighborhood. Sitting in your classroom. Assaulting you on the internet. Following you on the street.
I don’t mean just a crazed l... |
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Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 20 February 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. The American political process is imploding. Logic and reason have disappeared behind a partisan event horizon that threatens the existence of the oldest continuous form of government on Planet Earth.
The Republic is visibly dysfun... |
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Lisa Jain Thompson Wednesday, 16 February 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. Death is an evil. Were it otherwise, the gods would have died eons ago. As of yet, no human has found a way to avoid death; the most anyone was done is to delay it. But that does not mean we should embrace death. Sure there are time... |
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Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 13 February 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. If I were to pretend to faith, I would be little more than a brass bell without a striker, unable to sound even as it remains quite visible in the tower. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all, but though I study religion and have made... |
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Lisa Jain Thompson Friday, 11 February 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. Romance is not dead but it might as well be buried in an unmarked grave in under some little used dusty alley off Hollywood Boulevard and Fifth Avenue near the O. K. Corral. Nighthawks need not apply.
The high school girl who had n... |
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Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 06 February 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. In any event, we fear the consequences of loss more than we value the benefits of gain. I didn’t make that up. Study upon study has come to same conclusion.
We worry so much about what might happen if we lose what we have that we... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 30 January 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. I have worked for the United States Department of Defense since, well since before most of you were born. My experience with the Army is as a civilian but I can decipher the rank of service members and know the difference between th... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Wednesday, 26 January 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. Within this decade, certainly within the next, the American social spectrum will reabsorb the Gay Pride Rainbow. That’s what we all wanted, after all, isn’t it?
Well it’s happening, although slower than some may like. But are... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 23 January 2011 Fairfax, VA, USA. Strangely, I do not feel unequal. We are born with an inalienable equal right to failure and I have pursued as many chances to fail as everyone else who has achieved limited success.
Having failed in my pursuit of whatever, however... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Wednesday, 19 January 2011 Disclaimer: The events depicted in this column are fictitious. Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental. I will serve no Irish babies before their time.
Fairfax, VA, USA. Once upon a time, for all fables were once anchored ... |
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