by DAN SAVAGE

In The New York Times

In today's Straits Times, two young Singaporeans have written about bad manners among their peers, and reading them, you would think they were well-meaning, fairly educated and highly observant retirees ( Read more... )

I shook hands with James Rado today and didn't even know who he was.

James Rado, the man who wrote the book and and lyrics for the musical HAIR, lives in Hoboken, where rubrix and I live. We like to go to a cafe called Baron's, run by a chatty and extremely personable Japanese man named Chika ( Read more... )

It was, like, a moment to remember ( Read more... )

Charity is an infinite resource. The more you give, the more people take.

QUESTION: Livedoor was supposed to show Japan Inc. how to butt-kick the old boys' network, but has an accounting probe into the company blunted the country's focus on reform ( Read more... )

I've been called caustic; callous; cold. But it was a first when I was called a brutal pragmatist, from a friend who I said should wave his moolah at his beau's face to snare him home after several years of separation. "Such brutal pragmatism," he told me. I like it, far better than I like the four-letter slurs I often get: rude; evil; journalist ( ( Read more... )

This report appeared in NYU's student paper and what's noteworthy is that it caused hardly a ripple. Students laughed it off or couldn't care less if Pentagon thought this student gay group was Satanic. I'm thinking what might happen if the Ministry of Defence or a minister said the same of any student body at NUS. Call me peevish or intemperate, ( Read more... )

Ang Lee, whose groundbreaking film Brokeback Mountain just won several Gloden Globes, hasn't been highlighted by NYU although he's a Tisch alum. You'd think NYU would seize this chance to honor a past student and self-promote, but no. May be I'm just being mercenary.

Open contention, not bottled-up feelings, surest way to stability ( Read more... )