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The Rot we pretend not to see

My dear wife showed me a video a few days ago that I can’t seem to shake. It’s not that I’m truly surprised. I know these people exist. I know evil walks among us.

Dinosaurs are gay

It would have been quite difficult for us to imagine only ten years ago the current world that we live in. These so called communities that get behind the "new

Debating the religious? Why?

I'm going to "go ahead" and post this here, because I'm quite curious as to the value of such a spectacle. I mean, I know people like seeing these

Come on a journey with me through Auckland, my home

Journey the buss takes me up Wellesley Street past the City Mission apartments where I live Auckland is full of hills or should that be central Auckland. Paved with

Your film is a trainwreck

Actor/Actress Aspect ratio is the rectangle on the screen You’re a bad editor Boom mic I want to do that job except I have this thing with my arm Because you want

Challenge #03915-J263: Two Kind Hands

They HATED the damn teufs with a passion! They were shocked when they awakened in a medic tent, bandaged heavily after thinking they had died during that rock-fall,

Challenge #03915-J263: Two Kind Hands

They HATED the damn teufs with a passion! They were shocked when they awakened in a medic tent, bandaged heavily after thinking they had died during that rock-fall,

I should address this directly -- just as a matter of utility, what would be wrong with referring to the rapist as a man?

I've been attacked a lot for misgendering people like Jessica Yaniv. People are insisting that it's just a matter of simple etiquette to accept a person as the gender

Feminist straight women had a moral-political obligation to become lesbians in the 1970s-80s. Nothing really new today.

If you're a liberal in your mid-thirties or older, and you've been somewhat morally consistent over the last twenty years or so, you've lived through the coalition

The Concept of a True Clone Falls Apart

There is this fascination with clones. It mostly tends to arise from thoughts of immortality, fear of death, things unfinished, etc. What if we could create a clone

It's absurd on its face to say that any system of intellectual thought absolutely negates racists as fellow travelers.

What we're always dealing with is a spectrum of value systems that, on one end, makes it hard to be a racist, and on the other end, lends itself to a racist worldview.

Real bigotry: woman arrested for a racist rant and assault in Plano, Texas

Esmeralda Upton Image: Plano Police Department Esmeralda Upton (pictured above) was recently arrested in the Dallas suburb of Plano for approaching several Asian

Why do Reason writers always aggressively miss the point?

Scott Wiener is pointing out that abstinence isn't a public health strategy. People have sex. Abstinence doesn't work for sex ed. It doesn't work for the HIV/ AIDS

Naughty BBC.

Imagine being the person who took the statement from a lesbian woman who was raped and said: "He pressured me into sex by telling me that my lack of desire

Violent attack against Hasidic Jews in New Jersey

Dion Marsh Image: Lakewood, NJ, Police Department Last Saturday, Dion Marsh (pictured above) warned his family that he was about to cause a blood bath, went out

Bigoteer: What Is a Bigoteer and What Does Bigoteer Mean?

Bigotry is big business. But maybe not for who you think it is. “Bigoteer” is a neologism for someone who profits not from bigotry themselves. Indeed, there doesn’t

After a point, ignorance becomes almost as blameworthy as malice.

I lost multiple relatives in the Holocaust. Thus, I'm far from taking it lightly. Nonetheless, I think Whoopi Goldberg's statement here was ignorant, rather than

No amount of telling victims of bigotry to change their behavior is going to fix bigotry.

Bigotry exists in the minds and behaviors of bigots. If someone has already determined that assertiveness is a bad trait in a woman, being assertive will only hurt

Dating preferences should not be construed as phobias!

I can honestly say that I understand or appreciate anybody who says that he or she absolutely won't date a person on the basis of race - I also don't see or hear

Cancelling Palestine

In this episode of Rise Like Lions, Kevin and Dave explore the high price many Canadians pay for speaking out in support of Palestinian human rights. After a brief