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Hate in Context

An opinion piece in the NYT: Manal al-Sharif, co-founder and leader of the #Women2Drive movement and founder and CEO of Women2Hack Academy, is author of the memoir “Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening.” As a Saudi Arabian woman who has lived most of her life under one of the last surviving absolute monarchies in theContinue reading “Hate in Context”

Bugmen of the Cloth

Burnaby British Columbia looks like a lovely place just east of downtown Vancouver, with an active refugee resettlement program. The pastor of a church that helped sponsor a Syrian refugee family said it was “absolutely devastating” to find out one of the family members has been charged with murder in the death 13-year-old Marrisa Shen.Continue reading “Bugmen of the Cloth”

Pointless in Portland

Another directionless stream. With Delcroix, Jonathan Pohl, ecce lux and a friendly troll.

Re-run

The Carrot and the Stick All of these fatigued and serious faces showed no evidence of despair…they made their way with the resigned expression of those who are condemned to hope forever.–Charles Baudelaire, To Each His Own Chimera Human beings are, necessarily, actors who…can be divided…into the sane who know they are acting and the madContinue reading “Re-run”

Upsetting

Is the Democratic Party becoming more progressive or just browning? Is there a difference? The Hill: The story of Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley’s “upset” primary victory over 10-term Congressman Mike Capuano is a compelling one: young, progressive woman trounces Democratic establishment icon. The district wanted “change.” (At least, that’s how Capuano tells it.) Pressley’sContinue reading “Upsetting”

Axis: Bold as Hate

Bernie Sanders sees in the global trend toward nationalism an “authoritarian axis”, and proposes a new progressive international front to oppose it in an op ed for the UK edition of the Guardian At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, when the world’s top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 99%,Continue reading “Axis: Bold as Hate”

Pozland Dispatch for September 12

Is Serena Williams on PEDs, is getting stabbed a good thing and other questions. Subscribe to my YouTube channel.

The Most Current-Year Thing Ever Said

Comes to us by way of The Hill, quoting one of two women made uncomfortable by a surprise stand-up set by recently MeToo’ed comedian Louis CK “Everyone around me was laughing,” one of the women told Vulture. “That was just depressing.” He could at least have had the decency to bomb.

Serene Williams

The most important story in the world last weekend was Serena Williams’ public humiliation by the Man after an embarrassing on-court tantrum at the US Open. I suspect the crackup originates from performance enhancing drugs. Of course she’s also mother to a one year-old and, still, Serena Williams. That narrative–the new mother and old champion returningContinue reading “Serene Williams”

Globonationalism

Ernst Roets of the pro-Boer oranization Afriforum addressing South Africa’s congress …the ANC/EFF’s argument that “ownership of land by whites should be regarded as illegitimate because Africa is the black people’s continent, then [they] should be prepared to join forces with white, right-wing fascists in Europe who argue that Europe is white people’s continent, and that thereContinue reading “Globonationalism”