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This is weird. I’m going to be sympathizing with multi-billionaire and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook has been criticized for years for not controlling “hate speech,” culminating in a recent call by a couple of snowflake city supervisors that his name be removed from what had been San
Twitter may not be the greatest threat to American democracy, but it’s on the list as a fountain of falsehoods and a source of planned propaganda. It is all-too-often a garbage generator, a sewer of moral supremacy that can clearcut a forest of opposing opinion that the
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What does it take to drop a major American corporation to its knees? A stupid online petition with a measly 4,275 signatures, that’s what. Trader Joe’s annual revenue is $13 billion for its 500 U.S. stores. The chain is known for doing some things differently, often
Humor
As regular readers know, when I post a meme or a joke it doesn’t mean I agree with it (I sometimes do) or that I am endorsing it it. It means that it made me laugh. And that is the spirit that leads me to offer this to you.
Systemic Racism
As a journalist, I notice that the phrase “systemic racism” is being presented as fact by most media outlets I am looking at. It is not “reputed,” not “alleged,” not “believed.” Adopting the phrase was not a decision made by a Grand Wazoo. It is the result of Leftist group
Racism
You can’t have a discussion without a common language. To facilitate discussion, here is a glossary of “racial equity” terms, drawn from a variety of sources. The definitions are shaped more by progressive politics than by linguistics. The language is sometimes turgid because it is rooted in academia, not
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City Managing Director Brian Abernathy, still working after announcing his resignation after less than two years on the job, lit my fuse with two comments in a single paragraph, putting into relief a couple of things wrong with (some?) Democrats today. Depending on which version you read, he wants out
Immigration
By tradition, the political season begins after Labor Day, but in a year where most other tradition has been turned in its ear, both sides have jumped the gun. Democrats and Republicans are running attack commercials, either on TV or online, and the Joe Biden camp has just finished a
Anti-Semitism
Today’s topic is hypocrisy, and our shared reaction to hate. Today’s subject is DeSean Jackson, an admirer of Louis Farrakhan, and a disseminator of faux Hitler anti-Semitic garbage the wide receiver posted on Instagram. First, Farrakhan. He is well-known as anti-Semite, anti-white, anti-gay.
Coronavirus
I just got off the phone with my one-time office spouse, and I’m feeling guilty. An office spouse is that work colleague with whom you are so close you develop a bond that is like marriage — one of complete trust and confidence. But not sex. So that’s
Democratic Party
Here’s something that goes around periodically — a satire of the Democratic national convention schedule. I’d be happy to publish a Republican schedule if someone sends it to me. I have looked and can’t find one. The 2020 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION SCHEDULE DAY ONE: Monday August 17, 2020 1:
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I wish Jonathan Holloway well. The 53-year-old educator and historian recently became the president of New Jersey’s flagship university, Rutgers, and said, no, it would not be changing its name. The school is named for Col. Henry Rutgers, a Revolutionary War hero — and slaveholder. “We are not