Humor
Today’s best meme
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.
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Systemic Racism
Why the lie of “systemic racism” actually hurts Blacks
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
The racial equity glossary
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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How to end “white privilege”
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
Dems on immigration: Left of Obama
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
Why the DeSean Jackson controversy had little splash
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
Living in the virus bubble
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 come the Democrats
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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A solution to the statue problem
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
Social media
Are you into (anti) social media?
Remember before the Internet, when you used to get gossip at the water cooler and the beauty shop, and you had to buy porn (you called it porno) at a “bookstore” that had its windows painted black? Back when you cussed people out face to face, and had to go
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Small state, smaller racial idea
It’s always painful to admit ignorance, so it hurts when I say I had no idea that the full name of the state of Rhode Island is “the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” I’ve been there, had friends who lived there and showed me the Gilded
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Mt. Rushmore vs Crazy Horse
President Donald J. Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore reignited complaints from Native Americans that the land was stolen from them, and the monument desecrated land they regard as holy. This is true, but irreversible. We are not going to destroy the monument as the Taliban did to huge Buddhas.