originally published in the Hartford Advocate Civil Arrangements You can get a civil union, but no one is sure how to change your last name, even the people who wrote the law By Jennifer Abel Don’t you hate those annoying Sisyphus dreams where you keep trying to do some absurdly simple task, and fail again […]
Civil liberties
Bad Medicine
originally published in the Hartford Advocate Bad Medicine The state may allow marijuana use for medical purposes, but there is still strong opposition. Should a pot-smoking paraplegic go to jail then? By Jennifer Abel There’s this guy Mark Braunstein in Waterford who’s living the intellectual hippie-Bohemian dream life: He’s on the faculty at a small […]
Craigslist isn’t now free of sex – you just can’t pay for it
Craigslist isn’t now free of sex – you just can’t pay for it Why should sex, alone among all forms of human interaction, be thought to spawn malignant magic when money changes hands? Originally published in the Guardian Power corrupts. Even the high ethical standards of prostitutes would probably plunge down to near-politician levels if […]