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Rabbits in photos may not be gay, Times warns

Photo by Jeff Koons for the New York Times

In today’s Sunday magazine, the New York Times has outdone itself in a piece titled “The Love That Dare Not Squawk Its Name.”  The subtitle provides helpful amplification: “Inside the science of same-sex animal pairings.”

It’s not the article that stopped me in my tracks, but the minuscule text under the credit for the photographs.  It reads in part:

No assumptions should be made about the animals’ sexual preference based on their appearance in this portfolio.

I’m not kidding, and I doubt that the Times is.  Perhaps the magazine is engaging in ironic humor, but it is hard to believe that Old Gray Lady would do that.

The editors really seem to be worried that the rabbits and Chinese silkie chicks shown above, plus the cats, sheep, roosters and butterflies in the photos would sue them if readers think they are gay.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

If the editors concerns were not so offensive, they might be laughable. I, for one, am not laughing.

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One year ago today. . .

. . . I started this blog, on April 4, 2009.

Didn’t want to do it, didn’t know how and didn’t want to spend the time.

But 345 posts later (including this one), here I am with a measure of success for which I had hoped and that I didn’t quite expect.  For example, I had a grand total of 58 page views in my first week; last week, it was 4,611.

Also, I have established beneficial ties with a dozen other real estate bloggers who knew each other online and often linked to each other.  But most of us hadn’t met or even spoken until I got us all together a month ago.

And new customers have come my way just because of the blog, an obviously desired result.

As a former  journalist – traditional journalist, I now have to say – the writing has come easily to me.  Still, it is on top of the burden of the lengthy free e-newsletter, now in its eighth year, that I write myself and send out every two weeks. Only rarely does the material overlap or duplicate itself, and I strive to keep the newsletter as free of opinion as this blog is full of it.  (Oops!)

Carrie Gable

So, I’m proud of my achievement, and I owe my deep appreciation to the team of virtual assistants who work in Chicago and whom I never have met face to face.

Carrie Gable – whose business has grown many times over since we began our association in 2003 while I was selling real estate in Washington, D.C. – was the person who talked me into starting the blog and whose loyalty, professional help and advice, and friendship have kept me going all this time.

Among other things, Carrie and her expanding team at RealSupport take care of my Web site, format my newsletter and keep me sane when I’m frantically busy.  They also set up the blog and provided me with continual encouragement after I moved back to Manhattan.

Thank you, Carrie, and thank you, readers, for sticking with me!

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Malcolm Carter
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Charles Rutenberg Realty
127 E. 56th Street
New York, NY 10022

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