March 24th, 2008
by Sam Pagan
“Never trust a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” the old saying goes. But these days, gray wolves will have to disguise themselves in sheep’s clothing more often in order to stay alive, because there are ‘too many’ of them - an estimated 1500.
In the 1990s the federal government put gray wolves on the endangered list per the Endangered Species Act, a law meant to protect a species from being hunted or killed to extinction, thus keeping the ecosystem in check. In 1995, gray wolves were finally reintroduced into their native lands surrounding Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming - also referred to as the Greater Yellowstone and Rockies area - and were saved from total extinction.
In late February of this year, the Bush Administration announced their plan to allow the killing of gray wolves due to loss of livestock and their supposedly overwhelming numbers.
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February 9th, 2008
by Isaac James
A while back I overheard a small group of people refer to a movie as gay. Of course I understood they weren’t suggesting to one another that the movie they were discussing found other action movies attractive; rather, they meant to call the movie “stupid” or simply not worth seeing.
I’m afraid I have a problem with that. The issue of using a word to describe an enormous group of people and using the same word to suggest disapproval in something or someone gives us gays a very mixed outlook on the word “gay”.
I’ve noticed that many non-gays, especially boys, tend to suggest gay behavior in one another as a method of insulting or teasing one another. They might question a man’s sexuality in order to emasculate him. Heaven forbid somebody be gay or effeminate, right? Sorry, but that’s not cool either.
It’s no wonder that gay children have so much self-hatred with which to deal, a loathing which many people not close to or related to a GLBT individual may not even begin to understand. There is no understanding about our way of life or culture until we are already grown and out of the house. By that time, however, our perceptions of ourselves are far less than positive. We understand ourselves to be secondary, that the straight man has seniority over us.
This is the only culture to do this.
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