Daily Archives: May 25, 2015

Sacrifice

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World Ends: Woman and Minorities Hardest Hit (Pt. 21,719)

Comedian Mort Saul is attributed with the classic line that, if the NYT were to report on a nuclear apocalypse, their headline would be: “World Ends: Woman and Minorities Hardest Hit.” Enter the NYT with a piece actually titled “Public-Sector … Continue reading

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Brave New World: NYC Elite Prep School Edition

The most hilarious paragraph from a piece on an elite NYC progressive school’s attempt at the great social engineering elimination of racism: That December, the head of the school, Damian Fernandez, who in a meeting with me identified himself as … Continue reading

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The Denial of Death

I’ve long believed fear of death is the driving force behind almost everything we do, particularly Culture-writ-large. And when it comes to culture, the magnitude of that driving force is proportionally related to how sublimated that fear of death is. … Continue reading

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Ethiopian Jews in Israel

So, when it comes to closeted ethnocentrism (and not-so-closeted ethnocentrism), Israel sounds an awful lot like the million Fergusons that comprise the Evil, White, Racist U.S.A.: The story of the immigration and absorption of Ethiopian Jews in Israel epitomises the … Continue reading

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