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October 1, 2005

Portrait of the artist as a crazed lunatic Kos diarist with passive agressive homicidal impulses

Is a progressive jihad in the offing? You be the judge: We need terror. We need horror. We need the streets running awash in rivers of blood of these thugs and criminals and zealots. Activism didn’t prevent 60,000 deaths in Vietnam. All the activism of the Civil Rights era has gotten African Americans precisely nowhere. Segregation may not be the law of the land anymore, but it’s still the de

First, they came for the Burger King swirly cone wrappers and I did not speak out because I’m more of a Dairy Queen Blizzard kinda guy. Then they came for my ham sandwich…

From the Sun UK: Novelty pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff. Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. Bosses acted after a Muslim complained about pig-shaped stress relievers delivered

Bennett and the linguistic turn, redux

In response to my post yesterday about intentionalism as it applies to the Bill Bennett dustup, Politechnical Institute writes: There are two factors at work here—one, an intellectual understanding of how communication works, and two, a political understanding of how the current reality works. First, communicators must ALWAYS be aware of how their messages may be interpreted. This is standard business and political doctrine. If this were purely about intent,