Columnists :: Reality Check
 
In the news business, we will get what we pay for
By Jeff Epperly | Wednesday Nov 18, 2009
To paraphrase a well-worn maxim: we lose our history and we are doomed to repeat it.
Whipping up the anti-HRC mob with some creative editing
By Jeff Epperly | Wednesday Oct 21, 2009
The LGBT blogosphere is every bit as susceptible to incomplete information, misinformation, and a mob mentality as are its right-wing counterparts.
I’ll admit it: they pulled off the NEM
By Jeff Epperly | Tuesday Oct 13, 2009
"They can’t ignore this," I thought as I snapped pictures. "Now they’ll know how many of us there must be, and we will be heard."
How dare you, Mr. President?
By Jeff Epperly | Wednesday Oct 7, 2009
The citizens of Facebook crazy-land turn a presidential address into an insult.
Capuano has the real stuff to replace Kennedy
By Jeff Epperly | Wednesday Sep 30, 2009
Let’s not settle for fakes when the real thing is even better.
Coakley for U.S. Senate? Not so fast...
By Jeff Epperly | Wednesday Sep 16, 2009
Despite DOMA, is she still the best for the job?
Kennedy, Menino, and us
By Jeff Epperly | Thursday Sep 3, 2009
Why it’s great to be a Bay Stater.
Closing the Hatch
By Jeff Epperly | Thursday Aug 20, 2009
I’ve feel as if I’ve always been in a shrinking minority in my holding a soft spot in my media heart for Rhode Island native Richard Hatch, the first-season winner of ’Survivor.’
When being gay is no big deal
By Jeff Epperly | Thursday Aug 20, 2009
One of the burning questions left over from Gov. Deval Patrick’s appointment of the openly gay James Aloisi as Secretary of Transporation in December of 2008 was why there was so little media interest in the gay issue at the time.
People with guns and badges should not be given greater rights than the people they protect
By Jeff Epperly | Wednesday Jul 29, 2009
In a world where white males feel entitled without even recognizing their innate sense of entitlement, the problem is only compounded in an occupation when hyper-sensitive law enforcement personnel think they are entitled to an unrealistic level of decorum and respect from the very people who pay their salaries.
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