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Bare breasts and burkinis: The hypocrisies of Manuel Valls and France
“Liberty Guiding the People”, by Eugène Delacroix, 1830. This image has been often conflated with that of Marianne, an allegorical figure representing the French Republic, who is typically not shown...
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The Drumpfenproletariat strikes again…
Well, looky here. The Mencken Prophecy has fulfilled itself yet again. Last time it was Dubya and his “Get a Brain Morans”. This time, it’s Der Drumpf…and his little Drumpflings from the...
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White guy defends other white guy against evil natives. Film at 11!
Meet Konrad Yakabuski. Konrad has an awful beef against all the pesky non-white people ganging up on white people who claim non-white ancestry and make big bank and get critical acclaim by writing...
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Did the CIA “cuckold” Gabriel García Márquez?
According to author Joel Whitney (interviewed here by David Pakman), oh yeah they did. And Gabo, a close friend of Fidel Castro, was not impressed: BTW, the CIA’s lit-mag funding program has been an...
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Quotable: Robert Burns on women’s rights
More relevant now than ever. Happy Robert Burns Night, all bards and Scotsfolks!
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On (re-)reading The Handmaid’s Tale: A few random thoughts
The first time I read The Handmaid’s Tale, I was in university…and I didn’t understand it at all. To be fair, I was probably about 19 or 20. The book was just a couple of years old, a major bestseller...
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Daddy Yankee throws a snit over Venezuela
Ay, Dios mío. What have we here? Yes, that was Madurito, having a little harmless fun with a pop song in advance of the elections for the Constituent Assembly, which will be convened to rewrite the...
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Stupid Sex Tricks: The way to a neo-Nazi’s heart is…
…through his, um, well, YOU know… Yeah, THAT’ll work. Did any of these guys actually get laid as a result of their little stroll through Charlottesville, where nobody wanted them? Most likely not. If...
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Music for a Sunday: One for the bastards of Hollywood and Washington
Just a word of fair warning to the Harvey Weinsteins and Donnie Drumpfs of the world.
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Quotable: Ed Sanders on the Manson Family murders
“The Manson case had everything — it ripped aside enough of the veils of Hollywood to titillate the nation’s and even the world’s interest. It had rock and roll, it had the lure of the Wild West, it...
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“Alt”-right anti-SJWs try to ruin Star Wars, fail epically
Trolls trying to pre-emptively ruin the latest Star Wars film by leaving bad reviews before they’ve even had a chance to see it, based on shit they read on the internet that’s got their underoos in an...
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French “feminists” don’t get #MeToo, apparently.
So it wasn’t bad enough, last week, that 100 prominent French women, some of them soi-disantes feminists, got their expensive lingerie in a bunch over the whole #MeToo movement and decided to write an...
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It’s Holocaust Memorial Day. Do you know where YOUR Nazis are?
In case you needed reminding, this is what they’re trying to deny, and hoping you’ve forgotten. Alain Resnais, however, made this ten years after the liberation of the death camps, and it puts the...
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Baby Jesus and Alex Jones have semen on the brain
That’s right, folkies…they both got triggered (to wank on the air, or at least the Internet) by a gnarly vein in Barack Obama’s temple. Honestly, these ‘wingers obsess more about sex than people...
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Quotable: Philip Roth on Drumpf
In honor of the author of The Plot Against America, who passed away yesterday. And dang, that book is good; I need to re-read it pronto!
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Some things you never knew about square dancing
1. It’s an official state dance in several US states. 2. Henry Ford endorsed it as a wholesome, “white” alternative to “immoral” jazz music and the wild dancing that went with it. 3. It was actually...
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OFFS, seriously???
This is a painting of Donnie Drumpf, scoring a touchdown at football (with bone spurs!) against his Democratic (and Independent) opponents. But is it ART??? Well, I suppose it would be, if you stuck an...
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Comedy. (I think.)
What if you “played the Nazi card”, as the far right calls it when anyone calls them out on their fascism, in an actual fascist country and era, namely Nazi Germany? Well, you might get something like...
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