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Abortion is one of those topics which need to be thought through before you start flapping your gums. It’s like Israel, the death penalty, and assisted suicide. Don’t go to the meeting unprepared, and don’t take rash and emotive stupidity to an intellectual gunfight. Always remember that you can lead an ass to reason, but you can’t make him think. (more…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Punk Rock Roots of Punching Nazis,” on how punk went from toying with Nazi imagery to becoming intensely anti-fascist — and becoming a lot less interesting in the process. (more…)
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Blacks make up nearly a third of United States postal workers, and I don’t care if someone tries to punch me for suspecting that this is one of the main reasons our postal service is going to hell.
I make part of my living by selling my books through the mail, and skyrocketing postal prices combined with plummeting postal service means that no matter how meticulously I package the books I send out — they’re lovingly cocooned in a bubble envelope that is cradled inside a rigid cardboard mailer — sometimes they wind up damaged, anyway. (more…)