Category: Human Interest
Pomo Priorities (The Ballad of How Occidental Civilization Was Won & Lost)
1. Don’t say REAL MEN DON’T RAPE! That’s essentialist! But men shouldn’t rape…? STFU! Essentialist!!!!! *** 2. OMG! Stop comparing the Brotherhood to ISIS! But they’re theocrats… OMG! #Hashtag, not all moderate political Islamists!
Banned “Male Health” Documentary from 1952 (Part 2)
We tracked down a banned 1950s virility documentary film, and we present it to you essentially un-edited. Sure, we cleaned it up a bit, made it look nicer, but it’s essentially as it was meant to be. Watch it…
Mass Atrocities? It’s Really Not About the Numbers
Recently someone said to me the Holocaust would have been ‘less bad’ if 9 thousand were murdered instead of 9 million.
I am Not Unity, and I am Not Division
The only thing to be afraid of is fear itself. Be good to the one person who needs your respect and gentleness more than any other person.
The secret to maintaining your New Year’s Resolutions…
… is never to make any, of course. I mean, seriously. Just look at my track record over the past twenty years.
There is Nothing More Natural than Appealing to What is Natural
Nothing morally consequential follows from ‘the natural.’ There is nothing ‘unnatural’ about mass atrocities, wifebeating, gay-bashing, anti-disabled sentiment, racism, or dying of a heroin overdose.
Glossy News Book Showcase 6: Tim Jones’s “You’re Grounded For Life” – Misguided Parenting Strategies that Sounded Good at the Time
YOU’RE GROUNDED FOR LIFE – Misguided Parenting Strategies that Sounded Good at the Time is available for purchase as a paperback book or as an ebook at fine retailers everywhere, as well as a few shady outlets I would never…
Islam & the Mystery of the “True” Liberal (Guest Post from Khwaja Khusro Tariq)
Meet “Moderate” Muslim and “True” Liberal… Or MM & TL, for short!
You Say ‘Fuck 2016,’ 2016 Says ‘Fuck The Haters’
Does anyone else think the whole ‘Fuck you, 2016?’ thing has a bit of a class bias? I don’t think 2016 is objectively worse than other recent years.
The Acceptable Antisemitism of the Anti-Racist Community (ARCom)
Just look at the following link. I think the headline may be inappropriate and probably risks tapping into Alt-Right sentiment. Perhaps focusing on anti-semitism might been better? Still, it is well known journalists often do not choose the headline anyway.