Cecil Rhodes

Whitewashing the Blackboard

Here's some more good stuff from the "€œacademy"€ to get 2016 really rolling. It concerns Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder who left an Oxford University college more than 50 ...

Niqab Nightmare

I rarely show much interest in Canadian politics. Truth be told, I think of Canadians as the friendly, quiet neighbors who keep their front lawn neatly manicured and their ...

Purging America’s Heroes

With that kumbayah moment at the Capitol in South Carolina, when the Battle Flag of the Confederacy was lowered forever to the cheers and tears of all, a purgation of the ...

Black People Don”€™t Drink Coffee

Black people don"€™t drink coffee. There"€”I"€™ve said it. I"€™m generalizing, of course. Yes, I realize you have a black friend who drinks a lot of coffee. You"€™ve ...

Nonwhites Can”€™t Be Racist Cuz My Teacher Told Me So

Although it was released over three years ago, there were audible sounds of indigestion online recently at the discovery of a textbook called Is Everyone Really Equal?: An ...

Hey, LG”€”Drop the BT

Hey LG, it's time to drop the BT. It's also time to drop any other letters that are straggling to join that ever-expanding abbreviation. They"€™re holding you down. In recent ...

A Community for the Non-Horny

Asexuality: It's not just for plants anymore. Nay, it is now a designated sexual identity for humans who aren"€™t horny. But it is much more than merely an individual identity. ...

Homogamy Most Heterodox

Last Friday proved a more eventful one than usual in New Zealand: on top of the usual weekend hustle, the Kiwi nation hosted the wedding of one Travis McIntosh to his partner, ...

The French Ruining Toplessness

The Germans may or may not have preferred to march in the shade, but the French proclivity for lolling topless in the sun is no chauvinistic joke. Right after the first female ...

Beware the Eugenicist

My direct relative fought with the loyalists during the American Revolution. He was a traitor to the cause of secession from the Crown. He fought for the British as a Lieutenant ...

Race Is a Social Construct, So I”€™m a Poor Black Orphan

If you"€™re generally a busy bumblebee like I am, you don"€™t have time to sit around all day socially constructing things. Thus, I am so glad that there are volunteers who do ...

Creepin”€™ Commie Killjoys

This week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office cancelled six patents associated with embattled football team the Washington Redskins. The patent office found in favor of five ...

Saving the World From Book Clubs

There was a time"€”or so I"€™m told, anyway; it was long before my day"€”when college kids thumbed their noses at authority, fiercely defended the freedom to openly exchange ...

Michelle Obama

Witches and Snitches

Watch out, codgers, curmudgeons and crackpots: Michelle Obama is enlisting your kids to monitor your thoughts. In a recent speech before five Topeka, KS graduating classes, Mrs. ...

T.G.I. Fridroids

Recruitment software start-up Entelo just released a brave new product: Diversity. This "€œproprietary algorithm"€ scours the Internet to determine the sex and ethnicity of ...


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