Alternet has found the remedy for the inconvenient politics of Craig Stephen Hicks. That remedy is to stop pretending politics–at least those of the killer–have anything to do with it. In “Angry, Armed and White” the mask slips: We can safely say that Craig Stephen Hicks fits the profile of the most common type ofContinue reading “The Narrate-o-Matic and the Real Enemy”
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Tied in Knots
“Ban the box” is a movement to outlaw employers asking applicants if they have a criminal history, motivated largely by the disparate impact it has on non-Asian minorities due to their higher rates of incarceration. According to the Guardian link above, it’s necessary because of “research suggesting that three-quarters of employers admit to using aContinue reading “Tied in Knots”
Ephemera
Chris White Chris White. His name was Chris White. The name returned to me “out of the blue” as they say–in fact it I was gazing on a gnarled grey sky, up to which ghostly ringlets of steam escaping my shower ascended like released souls returning to a primordial mass. The name only occurred toContinue reading “Ephemera”
Blue Moon
First Presbyterian Church, Portland
Unmentionables
Luke Ford probably isn’t the first to point this out: In many ways, Nazism and Judaism are opposites, but in some ways, they mirror each other, such as in their advocacy of ethnic unity, nationalism, particularism, and transcendent purpose. More to the point: what is Judaism but the theory and practice of a self-proclaimed masterContinue reading “Unmentionables”
The Realms of Fantasy
Tobias Langdon writing about Lysenkoism and Marxist pseudo-science in the Occidental Observer: The Lysenko affair illustrates the considerable degree of fortuitousness in the history of the [Stalinist] regime’s battle with culture. It is easy to see that ideology was much more clearly involved in questions of cosmogony [the study of the origins of the universe]Continue reading “The Realms of Fantasy”
Diary: As a Christian
Storefront Preaching
Diary: Desperately Seeking Stalker
Portland State University is scattered across the city’s downtown. I pulled my car up to the point where a city street ends and the school begins, at a stop sign beyond which only foot traffic is allowed. I was leaning against the front of my car waiting for someone and looking out over a nearContinue reading “Diary: Desperately Seeking Stalker”
As the World Burns
“American society is conservative and economically capitalist. Here are the results…something on the scale of the Los Angeles riots could not happen here, mainly because France is a more humane, less racist place with a much stronger commitment to social welfare programs.”French President Francois Mitterrand, 1992 “Our biggest advantage, major, is that our Muslim populationsContinue reading “As the World Burns”
My World
Work and PlayTo leave my place of work, where the kids have the radio tuned to the worst available pop station, with its aggressive, vocoder-strained, auto-tuned mediocrity (a fat butch, wearing a foot brace from a drunken accident, is explaining to a disinterested teenager how much better the song I Don’t Give a Fuck isContinue reading “My World”
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