Researchers at the University of the Phoenix spent a decade studying white men who profess hatred of other races – specifically the African American race – and they found a high correlation between penis size and white supremacist membership. “Specifically, the penises of white supremacists are quite a bit smaller than normal penises,” says head […]
Read More →A laser focus on bigots misses the point. Hate drives most of today’s problems. We spend too much time talking as if hate and bigotry are the same thing. Imagine two people: Ida Mae Everton, who just happens to have the first name of my great-grandmother, loves all God’s creatures. She has cats and dogs, […]
Read More →What if we’re not bigoted so much as paranoid? What if discrimination is merely a symptom, and the bigger, actual problem lies just below the surface: We’re afraid. We’re simply trying to block any person that could lead to our own untimely (or even timely) death. Today the topic-du-jour is immigration from any Muslim-heavy country […]
Read More →We love our villains. In movies, it’s sweet stuff when a hail of bullets riddles a drug kingpin, an abusive mother gets her what-for, or an evil queen evaporates in a fiery plume of green fire. We want pure evil to suffer a painful death. Unfortunately, true villains – completely one-dimensional, evil-to-the-bone, dog-kicking ones – […]
Read More →Four seven-year-olds discover a giant slug oozing along the sidewalk, a slimy trail marking its slow progress. “Ewww, touch it,” Kid A says. “I’m not touching it,” says Kid B. Kids C and D watch from the sidelines with a pretty good idea how this will play out. “You touch it.” “I’m not touching it,” echoes […]
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