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The white race has been losing ground in a lot of areas over the last several decades, but there is one area where there has been stunning progress, and it’s one that nobody would have guessed 50 years ago: heavyweight boxing. Three of the four major heavyweight boxing titles — World Boxing Association, World Boxing Organization, and International Boxing Federation — are currently held by a white guy, (more…)
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As Black History Month slowly creeps up on us like four straight weeks of rape and basketball, I find it incumbent to remind everyone that since a strict definition of “history” means “events that were recorded” rather than simply “events that happened,” there is very little actual history from sub-Saharan Africa because its denizens were so hopelessly backwards, they never got around to inventing simple things such as written languages with which to record the things that were happening around them. (more…)
Hunter passed out drunk while covering an event as a journalist circa 1960.
Hunter passed out drunk while covering an event as a journalist circa 1960.
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Part 3 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here)
3. Gonzo: What Happened? — Decline and Fall of Gonzo
As Thompson charts Hemingway’s road from literary brilliance to failure and suicide, he maps out his own path for the future. (more…)
Don Rickles
Don Rickles
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The 1970s and 1980s was an odd time for stand-up comedy. During this 20-year period, we saw the rise and glory years of what I would call racial humor. I define racial humor in this sense as jokes told by a racially aware comic that play upon or make fun of racial stereotypes. A comic can make fun of his own race just as easily as any other, but in all cases impresses upon the audience that his own race is one reason why the joke is funny to begin with. (more…)
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Mayo Monkeys, Your Time is Up
In a possibly apocryphal quote, Muhammad Ali allegedly explained why he refused to be drafted into the US Armed Forces to fight in Vietnam: “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.”
Okay, but had he ever spent any time around the Viet Cong? (more…)