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17 April 2011: No Sex Please, We’re Beyond British!

LOST IN LIMBO, OUT ON A LIMBy Paul April 17, 2011 2 Comments

In a stimulating essay (“The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral”) in today’s New York Times, Meg Wolitzer says she cannot imagine women like Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor or the former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice having sex. This led me to thoughts I shouldn’t have had, of other people of either gender whom I…

29 August 2010: Why Don’t You Believe Me?

OUT ON A LIMBy Paul August 29, 2010 2 Comments

As though the national hysteria over the right of some non-Christians to congregate and worship in mosques in this freedom-loving country weren’t depressing enough, comes news that academic research shows how native speakers of English tend to distrust people who speak the language with a foreign accent. Through the years, depending on which country America happens…