We’ve had a peculiar confluence of two names that have re-arisen in popular consciousness: Milo Yiannopoulos and James Baldwin. Yiannopoulos, the disgraced now-former Breitbart Editor,…
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I. Context For a period of time in the mid to late 80’s we lived in Northern Virginia, an area called Fairfax county, just south…
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I used to have a book that I kept in the bathroom called “The 100”, which made the case for the 100 most influential people…
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A number of years ago I watched an event called the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). By now there have been dozens if not hundreds of…
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The New York Times seems to have caught on to what I have been saying all along: that candidate Hillary Clinton has a Lisa Simpson…
Comments closedRecently this piece in The Guardian caught my attention. In it, Alan Moore, notable author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and all-around high priest…
Comments closedIt occurred to me some years ago that I didn’t know what neither Saddam Hussein nor Kim Kardashian’s voice sounded like. This led me to…
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I wrote a blogging application sometime around 2004 or 2005. Prior to launching it on our Social Media site, my boss at the time asked…
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Farewell, Aunt Jemima
ZEITGEIST UPDATE: I published this on the 3rd. On the 9th, this happened. Time to buy lotto tickets. As a matter of general principle I…