Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “White Girl Twitch a Lot,” on the case of Kaylee Gain, a white high school student who got in a fight with a black female student from her school in suburban St. Louis recently and was beaten to the point of sustaining severe brain damage. (more…)
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Have you ever wondered what it sounds like when someone repeatedly slams a white girl’s head into the pavement with all their might? Thanks to smartphone voyeurism and social-media bloodlust, you need wonder no more.
Last Friday around 2:30 PM Central Time, two 15-year-old girls — one white, one black — squared off in the middle of a suburban St. Louis street. (more…)
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November 7, 2022 Steven Clark
Johnny Whistletrigger Music of the Civil War in Missouri
“I’ve just got a new record of Civil War music,” my brother recently bragged over the telephone.
He wanted some snappy tunes to listen to, and mentioned that the Nazi marches he is so fond of have been banned from YouTube. “I’ve discovered Italian Fascist marches,” he said. “They’re very melodic and . . . so operatic.” He referred to a long-ago record cover. “They’re so warm.” (more…)
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Jesse James was a man
He was known throughout the land
He was bold, he was bad, but he was brave;
But that dirty little coward
That shot down Mr. Howard
Has gone and laid poor Jesse in his grave . . .T. J. Stiles
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
New York: Chelsea House, 1993 (more…) -
In 1962, Jetta Carleton’s The Moonflower Vine was published and immediately praised. One critic compared it to To Kill a Mockingbird, which had been published in 1960. Like Harper Lee’s book, The Moonflower Vine was the only work of its author. The novel was loved, revered, then went out of print. To Kill a Mockingbird, as we all know, is probably taught more in schools than the Bible and, to the progressive set, it is a kind of Bible.