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MEL SEESHOLTZ

Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D., is a Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He also teaches in the American Studies and Science, Technology, and Society programs at PSU.

Contact Mel: mcs2@psu.edu
 

The Lame Excuse Game: Everyone's a Loser  (09-10-07)
Dogmatists Seethe, Spirituality Betrayed  (08-23-07)
'Ex-Gay Therapy' Leaders Confess to the Scam  (08-23-07)
Logocide and the Christianist Lexi-Con  (06-30-07)
It's All in the Headlines...   (06-30-07)
Litigating Shadenfreude for the Christianist Right  (06-06-07)
Polluting Politics, Perverting Religion, Degutting Education: Dark Agenda of...  (05-29-07)
Jerry Falwell: Reaping What He Sowed  (05-29-07)
The Campaign to Kill the Matthew Shepard Act  (05-16-07)
Ride the Ark with Noah and Tyrannosaurus Rex  (05-02-07)
Seeking Dominion Over All, by Any Means Necessary  (04-17-07)
Hypocrites and Frauds Must Ignore George Santayana  (04-09-07)
Civil Unions, Civil Rights, and Genetic Cleansing  (03-23-07)
The Hypocritical Christian Right is being 'Left Behind'  (03-19-07)
Ann Coulter on Global Warming and Faggots  (03-19-07)
The Wisdom of Youth  (02-20-07)
Ted Haggard and the S.S.A.D. 'Ex-Gay' Fraud  (02-20-07)
Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize?  (02-08-07)
The Case of Donnie Davies and 'God Hates Fags'  (02-08-07)
Using Religion to Justify Discrimination  (01-22-07)
Whining GOPhers and a Loose Cannon President  (01-15-07)
The Three B's: Bush, Brownback and Benedict  (01-15-07)
Satan, Soy and... Shrinking Penises?  (12-18-06)
Galileo and Gays: Credibility Lost, Yet Again  (12-18-06)
The Evangelical Campaign Against Reality  (12-01-06)
Bound and Determined to Discriminate  (11-23-06)
Election 2006: Did Anything Really Change?  (11-23-06)
'Come Senators, Congressmen, Please Heed the Call...'  (11-14-06)
Another Hypocrite Exposed: The Ted Haggard Saga  (11-06-06)
When Words Frighten: Wal-Mart and the New Jersey Supreme Court  (10-30-06)
When Prostitution is Called 'A Marriage of Convenience'  (10-24-06)
The New Exodus From Oppression  (10-23-06)
As the November Elections Near...  (10-03-06)
Another Twist on the Twisted Attack on U.S. Colleges  (09-22-06)
A Tale of Two Groups  (09-15-06)
Impaled on the Horns of the Devil  (08-29-06)
The Apologist Exposes the Religious Right  (08-21-06)
'New Vision', Old Bigotry, and the Most Vile Accusation Yet  (08-15-06)
'Dr. Dino' Confronts the IRS, at Taxpayers' Expense  (08-04-06)
When Values Are Valueless  (07-28-06)
The American Theocracy's New Symbol  (07-25-06)
Freedom of Speech is Precious—But Some Isn't  (07-16-06)
"Monthly Man": The Pro-Equality Therapy  (07-06-06)
Beware Mephistopheles in Lotus Position  (06-26-06)
Patrick Henry Would Not Be Amused  (06-22-06)
The Christian Right and G.W. Bush in Plato's Cave  (06-06-06)
A Fictitious War and the RAP: Revving-Up the Zealots, Throttling Education  (06-05-06)
The Marriage Protection Amendment: R.I.P., 6-6-6  (05-26-06)
The Da Vinci Code Furor: Makes You Think  (05-19-06)
The Three D's: Dogma, Discrimination and Death  (05-15-06)
The Marriage Protection Amendment and Other Serious Silly Things  (05-08-06)
Bad for Business and Education, Good for Kraft Foods and Rabbi Yoffie  (05-01-06)
Freedom From Religion in the Year 2006 of the Common Era  (04-24-06)
Who Are Today's True 'Sodomites'?  (04-18-06)
The Real 'Obscenities' in the Media  (04-10-06)
It's Their Way or No Way, in Religion and Education  (04-09-06)
Making a Mockery of 'Diversity' and 'Academic Freedom'  (03-29-06)
Phony Values, Ignorance and Bigotry vs. Men of Genuine Principles  (03-20-06)
Homophobia and Intellectual Constipation: Easter Eggs and Equality Riders  (03-17-06)
"Dr. Dino," Capital Crimes, and Catholic Pizza  (03-15-06)
'Sincerely Yours': Samuel Alito's Letter to James Dobson  (03-09-06)
Playing Victim While Victimizing Gays and Children  (03-06-06)
High Tea: Sounds Good, But May Not Be...  (02-27-06)
Medical Advice With Mixed Messages: Part III  (02-21-06)
Medical Advice With Mixed Messages: Part II  (02-20-06)
Medical Advice With Mixed Messages: Part I  (02-14-06)
Stupid Statements, Oxymorons and Humor from the Hotline  (02-06-06)
Don't Ask, Never Tell vs. Civil Rights and Brokeback Mountain  (01-30-06)
The Christian Right's Hot Air Filled Lead Boycott Balloons  (01-24-06)
Humor and the Christian Right, In All Seriousness  (01-18-06)
Hypocrisy and the Christian Right  (01-12-06)
Part II: The Evangelical Christian Right's Pathological Attack on America  (01-04-06)
George W. Bush's Pathological Attack on America: Part I  (12-23-05)
Means and Ends, and Mean Ends: Ford and It's Not Gay  (12-12-05)
Lights Out: Time for the New Dark Ages  (12-06-05)
Science vs. Politics and Religion: The "Ex-Gay" Sham  (11-30-05)
The Devolution of Intelligent Design  (11-15-05)
There Comes A Time...  (11-04-05)
"Repent, America!" Screech the Theofascists  (10-18-05)
The Bunker Mentality: "The Babe" and the Catholic Church  (10-11-05)
"I Pledge Allegiance To..."  (09-19-05)
Yoga, Wicked Infants, Evil Equality, Good Torture and Arnold  (09-14-05)
Fundamental Questions For Fundamentalists  (09-09-05)
Katrina and Religion  (09-07-05)
Creationism, "God" and Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson  (08-29-05)
Injustice Sunday II: Sweet-n-Sour Neo-Cons  (08-24-05)
Is This a "Moral" Man?  (08-12-05)
Of Biblical Proportions: Hate, Wrath & Malice Aforethought  (08-09-05)
Persecuted Victimizers, Kids and SpongeBob  (08-01-05)
H.R. 3128 and the Golden Rule  (07-25-05)
Murder, Torture, Women, and Justice Sunday II  (07-18-05)
Religion, Politics, and Death by Stoning  (07-15-05)
Diversity, Academic Freedom and Conservative T-Shirts  (07-11-05)
After Sandra Day O'Connor  (07-06-05)
Equality Won in Canada and Spain  (07-04-05)
Death by Bush and Fruit Flies  (06-27-05)
Prescription for Disaster  (06-22-05)
Crimes Against Humanity  (06-16-05)
The Christian Right on Cats, Condoms and Charles Taylor  (06-14-05)
Greed and God, SCOTUS and Pot, Bush and the Porn Star  (06-09-05)
Charles C. Boycott and America's Christian Right  (06-06-05)
Originalists, Federalism, and Scott J. Bloch  (05-30-05)
Why is America Still "A Nation of Victims"?  (05-23-05)
Conspiracy Theories and Rovian Strategies  (05-19-05)
Pat Robertson, Infidels, and Luke 18:22  (05-09-05)
Bull's Eye: Targeted by the Christian Right  (05-04-05)
New Pope, Old Name, Same Attitudes  (04-27-05)
Theocracy 101  (04-21-05)
    Lying and Hate Are Not Traditional Values  (04-17-05)
An Introduction to American StupidSpeak  (04-06-05)