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NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, whom Raiders coach Jon Gruden described as possessing “lips the size of Michelin tires.”

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NFL Coach Resigns After His Hilarious Emails are Leaked

Black Americans are as statistically overrepresented in the ranks of professional football players as they are when it comes to committing homicide.

With his Nordic features and blond hair, Jon Gruden was a white NFL coach until last week. Back in 2003, he led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a decisive Super Bowl victory over what were then known as the Oakland Raiders. (more…)

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Watchmen is the greatest superhero movie of all time, and when it was released, its director Zack Snyder was poised to follow Christopher Nolan into the first rank of directors working today. But instead, he has directed an ever worsening series of turkeys: Sucker Punch, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and now Justice League, which is one of the worst movies I have ever seen: derivative, dumb, and dull. An assault on the senses and an insult to the intellect. It is also one of the most expensive movies ever made, costing an astonishing $300 million. It is really rather amazing that a director of Snyder’s proven talent, with a solid cast and a $300 million budget, could not have turned in a better movie. Clearly, there’s a lot of rot and a lot of ruin still left in Hollywood, and the sex scandals are just the beginning.  (more…)

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In any matchup between Batman and Superman, I side with Batman. I’ve never liked the character of Superman, because he is not a man at all. He’s basically a god. He’s not a human being who has raised himself to the pinnacles of human excellence. He’s an alien who is simply endowed with superior abilities. There is nothing heroic about Superman, because he is almost invulnerable. He faces no risks. There’s nothing he must struggle to overcome.

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American, Alien, or God?

Superman is the most American of heroes – and the most foreign. (more…)

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I have never liked the character of Superman. He is not a man who has transcended humanity toward something higher. He is simply an alien, who looks like one of us, and who comes equipped with a whole array of superpowers. From a Nietzschean and Faustian standpoint, that translates to zero appeal. I am not interested in being rescued by a superior being. I am interested in becoming a superior being. Furthermore, none of the Superman movies or TV shows ever managed to make this character compelling to me  (more…)

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Editor’s Note: 

The following text is a transcription by V. S. of a lecture entitled “Léon Degrelle and the Real Tintin,” delivered at the 21st meeting of the New Right, London, June 13, 2009. The lecture can be viewed on YouTube here. (Please post any corrections as comments below.)

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Modesty Blaise

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The following is excerpted from a book called Scum, written in 1992. (more…)

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Arie Kaplan
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2008

Ich möchte an meinen Essay über Comics mit einer Rezension des Buches From Krakow to Krypton des jüdischen Autors Arie Kaplan anschließen. (more…)