Kavanaugh salts the earth. Claire Khaw, Ecce Lux and Jonathan Pohl join. Subscribe to my channel for semi-regular livestreams at around 12:30 in the afternoon, Pacific Time, all week.
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Conquest and Consequence
It is hard to believe that it was the ancestor of those stolid and downtrodden Indians who one sees today, peddling their rude wares in the marketplace of Cuzco. It is their old imperial town, but there is scarcely one among them above the rank of a laborer; and during the last three centuries fewContinue reading “Conquest and Consequence”
Pozland Dispatch
Protests follow closely upon police shootings in Portland. Demonstrators blocked a section of a downtown Portland street for hours Monday where a 27-year-old man was fatally shot by police, calling for answers on why officers killed him. About 150 people gathered near Southwest 4th Avenue and Harvey Milk Street for a vigil in memory of PatrickContinue reading “Pozland Dispatch”
Forget it Jake, it’s Vaginatown…"
Claire Khaw joins me to talk Kavanaugh, women. One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.—Deuteronomy 19:15
Meriting Attention
Way back in 2007 a national crisis was initiated by the press over the prevalence of nooses, a symbol of lynching in the Jim Crow South, throughout America terrorizing blacks–all prompted by a series of hoaxes of course. I wrote a little satire (below) and thought I was being clever when I created, for aContinue reading “Meriting Attention”
Media v Media
Google’s Perspective algorithm is a tool for censoring “toxic” speech based on word combinations that isn’t effective enough for censorship proponents. (Who come mostly from media. Oliver Darcy’s efforts on CNN were crucial to the campaign to ban Alex Jones. They should just give him the Pulitzer. Come on, msm, you know you want to.) CableContinue reading “Media v Media”
Reading the report “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Far Right on YouTube” Intro:“For a short time on January 4, 2018, the most popular livestreamed video on YouTube was a broadcast dominated by white nationalists. More specifically, it was a stream by YouTubers Andy Warski and Jean-François Gariépy, facilitating a debate between a white nationalist and aContinue reading
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”
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