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As we head into the home stretch of the most recent Most Important Election of Our Lifetime, I find it impossible to avoid electoral chitchat no matter how hard I try. Perhaps it’s solipsism, or maybe it’s the sober realization that more important issues currently tug at my attention than who gets elected president on November 5, but lately I’ve been hyper-focused on finalizing all the details for a cross-country move. (more…)
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Has a major American publisher ever — and I mean even once — released a book written by an impoverished rural Caucasian that examines the multifarious neuroses and prejudices of urban Jews? If so, can you tell me how I’d go about ordering such a book? (more…)
Transsexual high school shop teacher Kayla Lemieux
Transsexual high school shop teacher Kayla Lemieux
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The phrase “not in my backyard” — represented with the acronym NIMBY — refers to the time-tested tendency of superficially progressive rich people to demand that the social compassion they so loudly champion is doled out at someone else’s expense. They fetishize the very idea of the downtrodden so long as the downtrodden don’t dare tread anywhere near their lawns. (more…)
Christopher Forth is a white dude at the University of Kansas who will soon be offering his students courses in “Angry White Male Studies.”
Christopher Forth is a white dude at the University of Kansas who will soon be offering his students courses in “Angry White Male Studies.”
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Have there ever been two more pugnaciously undesirable black women on this multicolored planet than Stacey Abrams and Whoopi Goldberg? Although one can thank cosmic beneficence for the fact that both of them are past breeding age, the idea that they both at one time in their lives had a sex drive, and thus a hardwired instinct to inflict replicas of themselves upon the world, is a haunting and thoroughly objectionable proposition. (more…)
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Greg Johnson was joined by Beau Albrecht for an Ask Me Anything session on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Riley Waggaman of the Edward Slavsquat blog was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they took a look at the situation inside Russia and its surrounding countries since the sanctions, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Let’s talk ice cream machines. They’re a minor aspect of your daily life that you might not even notice much. Chick-fil-a, Shake Shack, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, In-N-Out, Steak ‘n Shake, Dairy Queen, Rally’s — they all have them. Your local family-owned and regional chain restaurants have them as well. They are everywhere, and I contend we can look at the ice cream machine as a miniature social-capital and livability data-outpost because of their ubiquity. We can get to know a particular store or area of town by its ice cream machine functionality level. (more…)