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Sepoys on the dark side of the Moon
India may not seem to lie within the remit of this column, but bear with me. Britain’s ex-colony — which seems to be a description that fits a lot of nations now outpacing the old country — has just landed a spacecraft on the Moon, although it has not been confirmed whether, in line with Indian trains, there were dozens of people hanging off its hull. (more…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “The Unpardonable Word,” on the fact that all a black person needs to do to literally get away with murder these days is accuse a white person of using racial slurs. See below. (more…)
Jekierin Walker
Jekierin Walker
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I live in greater Atlanta, which ranks second only to New York City among all American metro areas in having the highest total number of blacks. Atlanta, though, has nearly twice as many blacks per capita as NYC. If New York is the Big Apple, Atlanta is the Big Watermelon. (more…)
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Tatiana Atkins
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According to Chicago Police Department stats, last year yielded 695 homicides and 2,832 shootings in the Windy City. Assuming that not all of the homicides resulted from shootings and that there was at least a sprinkling of fatal stabbings, stranglings, and even punchings, it’s fair to conclude that with a homicide-to-shooting ratio of perhaps one in five or even lower, nearly all of the shootings involved black gunmen. (more…)
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Sinéad O’Connor, the world’s most obnoxiously political and mercurially unstable shaven-headed songstress, was found dead in her London flat last week at age 56. While some people are asking “Why?”, I’m more inclined to wonder, “What took so long?” At the moment, her cause of death has not been revealed. (more…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “It’s Never a Good Idea to Get Your Boyfriend Pregnant,” on a bizarre murder-suicide in Florida involving a pregnancy and transgenderism. See below. (more…)
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Since she was eight months pregnant last Friday evening when she was shot to death, I’m going to assume that somewhere, buried beneath Camdyn Rider’s “he/him” pronouns, she had a vagina.
In the hateful and unenlightened world of my youth, that would have automatically qualified her as a woman. (more…)
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Theodore John Kaczynski, the Bedraggled Genius Prophet of Techno-Doom, was found dead in his North Carolina prison cell in the early morning hours this past Saturday. He was 81 years old. The cause of death is currently unknown, and I wouldn’t trust the federal prison officials to be honest about it, anyway. The New York Times is already spreading rumors that he committed suicide. (more…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “When Life Imitates Rap,” on YNW Melly, a rapper who may soon become the first major rap star to be sentenced to death, as he stands convicted of murdering two of his closest childhood friends. See below. (more…)
Jamell Demons, aka YNW Melly
Jamell Demons, aka YNW Melly
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On February 11, 2019, a 19-year-old rapper who calls himself YNW Melly — the “YNW” stands for “Young Nigga World” — led a Manhattan nightclub crowd in a singalong of his 2017 single “Murder on My Mind.” (more…)
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C. A. Swann: Wasn’t that dull work? Following me around in your spare time?
Tony Wendice: To begin with . . . yes. But you know how it is. It’s like a hobby. Once you take up a hobby, the more interesting and fascinating it becomes. You became quite fascinating. There were times that I felt you almost belonged to me.
C. A. Swann: That must have been interesting. (more…)
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Life-sized cut-outs depicting Canada’s 25 most wanted criminals were displayed throughout Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto on Monday, May 1. The exhibition accompanied a press conference held by the Toronto Police Services in conjunction with the Bolo Program, Toronto Crime Stoppers, and other organizations to make the public aware of some of the country’s most dangerous criminals. (more…)