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Home » Archives for Patrick Griffin

Author Archives: Patrick Griffin

Posted inNews & Politics

na na, hey hey, good-bye

by Patrick Griffin April 27, 1995August 20, 2021

A modest proposal for the retirement of our national pastime

Posted inNews & Politics

Let’s Ban Smoking Outright

by Patrick Griffin March 17, 1994August 20, 2021

OK, it’s a stupid, fascist, unnecessary, unworkable, historically discredited idea. But what’s wrong with it?

Posted inNews & Politics

The True Meaning of Xmas

by Patrick Griffin December 16, 1993August 20, 2021

I think Christmas has become something better–or anyway more deeply coherent, more universal, more important–than a celebration of the nativity of Christ. And the strange thing is, I think everybody knows it.

Posted inNews & Politics

City Life: Hot, Gay, Comes Every Day

by Patrick Griffin March 11, 1993August 20, 2021

When the only fact retailers know about you (or think they know) is that you’re sexually attracted to men, they simply can’t let go of it.

Posted inNews & Politics

A Valentine’s Message for You

by Patrick Griffin February 11, 1993August 20, 2021

I’ll concede you love. I’ll spot you the Greatest Love the World Has Ever Known. Still it seems inadequate as a central cultural ideal. Romantic love just isn’t what holds us together. It isn’t what matters.

Posted inNews & Politics

The Catcher in the Drain

by Patrick Griffin May 28, 1992August 20, 2021

Where Do All the Lawyers Come From? Confessions of a Lapsed Lawyer, Plus a Modest Proposal for Relieving the Glut

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