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Daily Archives: April 10, 2014
Messiah: Pt. 2,811,213
Here’s the NYT frontpage photo of The Organizer, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ‘Civil Rights’ movement, the greatest thing that ever happened to the United States. He’s lifting things up, like Jesus. You can’t make this shit up.
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Could America Become Mississippi?
From a Slate front piece titled “Could America Become Mississippi?“: Working at Northwestern University, psychologists Maureen Craig and Jennifer Richeson apply that question to demographic change, and, in particular, to white Americans vis-a-vis the prospect of a United States where … Continue reading
Posted in National, Race, White Identity
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Charlie Chaplin, Monster
“Charlie Chaplin, Monster” is Roger Lewis’ nicely written review of Peter Ackroyd’s new biography of Chaplin. It seems that Chaplin, despite the endearing qualities he carefully crafted into his Little Tramp, Chaplin himself was a megalomaniac: Chaplin’s hubris had no … Continue reading
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NYT: Sephardic Jews in Spain
Another JYT piece that had been on the ‘most read’ list for weeks (“In Spain, a Family Reunion, Centuries Later”): At twilight, I roamed a honey-colored labyrinth of brick houses in Segovia’s medieval Jewish quarter, walking a cobblestone path in … Continue reading
Among Ukraine’s Jews, the Bigger Worry Is Putin, Not Pogroms
A good read-between-the-lines piece from the NYT (“Among Ukraine’s Jews, the Bigger Worry Is Putin, Not Pogroms”): DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — From his office atop the world’s biggest Jewish community center, Shmuel Kaminezki, the chief rabbi of this eastern Ukrainian city, … Continue reading
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Alzheimer’s is Racist
From Science Daily: The risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease among older African Americans may be two to three times greater than in the non-Hispanic white population, new research suggests, and that they differ from the non-Hispanic white population in risk … Continue reading