“You’re not responsible–but you are” – Paraphrasing Jordan Peterson I picked up my sixteen-year-old son from the homecoming dance, and we talked during the drive home. He called me at 9:15pm saying it was ‘pretty much over’, but the event was not due to end until 10 pm. It’s been a long while since I’ve […]
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The ‘Boogeyman’ has existed since before the birth of everyone reading this. Yes, he does exist. For as much as this being is blamed for, his existence cannot simply be mass hysteria. The Boogeyman is real. Why would so many apparently competent people cower at his approach and hide from his arrival? The Boogeyman’s name
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Good looking people should be careful of the company they keep. Hiding among you, the good looking, are the envious who feel they have missed out on promised greatness. They are in perpetual despair because they failed in their beauty goals and are on a crusade against the attractive, motivated by the basic human emotion:
As she stood in a building built by men, using products made by men, purchased in an economy created by men, she proudly proclaimed the independence of women from men. That the thousands of years of subjugation to men and their wants was now over, same as the culture that she says women feel trapped
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There are few expressions that generate the level of vitriolic ridicule as the above title. Being one of this group of political rarities, and pariahs, I and those I will discuss fit into the statistic of only 5 out of 100 blacks are Republican. Most of this political block consists of well-educated and accomplished individuals
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There has been much speculation as to the cause of mass shootings, of violence, of the viciousness prevalent in everyday life in our nation. Was it always there and with the growth of twenty-four-hour news and the internet we see events that years ago would not have appeared in your nightly one-hour newscast? Or,
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The argument against prejudice is that it excludes people who may have value, based on their identity. Me, being a science buff, will quote Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of physics: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If whites are excluding people regardless of value just because they do not look like them, then it is also true that blacks are including people regardless of value just because they do look like them.
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In his 1996 comedy special ‘Bring the Pain’, Comedian Chris Rock joked, “. . . there is a civil war in the Black Community. There’s Black people, and there’s n****rs . . . n****rs have got to go.” The mostly black audience roared, roared in a way that we all knew when we heard it
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When I was forty years of age, there was still hope. That whatever it is could still happen. The prosperity dreamt of; the lifestyle sought. The possibility of achievement still there, like a car full of friends waiting outside with the engine running. They are blowing the car horn and telling me to hurry
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I no longer enjoy football. As a result, I have had no answer the uncomfortable question: “Did you see the game?” but every year found that I had a compounding list of grievances, which has led me to my present walk-away. Pink Shoes For eight years the NFL mandated players wear pink cleats and other
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