by Dwight Cathcart | Dec 26, 2011 | SCOTUS
John G. Lawrence is dead. He is the man who gave his name to “Lawrence v. Texas,” the case before the Supreme Court decided June 26, 2003 that invalidated all sodomy laws in the US. Lawrence was in his bedroom with another man, Tyrone Garner, having sex, when local...
by Dwight Cathcart | Dec 18, 2011 | In Search of Lost Time
Night before last I read something that was breathtakingly beautiful. In Guermantes Way, the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator is sitting in the Opéra, observing the beautiful women in their parterre boxes above him. “At first there were only vague...
by Dwight Cathcart | Dec 10, 2011 | Film
Longtime Companion, the film by Norman René; is about a small group of men who know each other from the bars in NYC and Fire Island—that is, some of them know some of them—who are caught for a moment on Fire Island and at work and at home in the city as they digest...
by Dwight Cathcart | Dec 1, 2011 | Alan Turing
The Boston Globe published a long article on Sunday, titled “A Computer That Thinks Like the Universe,” by Joshua Rothman. It’s interesting—it’s about quantum computing—and along the way to its conclusions, it discusses what the computers we use are and introduced...
