Over the course of my life, I've met many heterosexuals. To my knowledge, not one of them has ever spontaneously become homosexual. Likewise, I've met many homosexuals and, to my knowledge, not one of them as ever spontaneously become heterosexual. Likewise, I've never (to my knowledge) met a pedophile, but…
Binary: compounded or consisting of or marked by two things or parts.
You know that feeling of resentment that wells up inside when someone enters your space and dumps chores on you? It breeds a lot of resentment. That’s how neo-conservatives feel about progressives. Neo-cons hiss and spit when they speak of progressives because progressives try to dump lots of extra work on neo-cons.
What kind of work, you ask? The work of actually having to get to know people before judging them. It’s a lot of work. No wonder conservatives express such animosity toward progressives!
For the next minute, step inside the collective mind of the neocon . . .
…We had to retaliate against Iraqis when people from Saudi Arabia attacked us. Sometimes you need to show those people who’s in charge.
I check in with conservative talk radio quite often. In the privacy of my SUV, my radio reminds me that all unmarried mothers are failures. All welfare recipients are trash, of course. All drug addicts should be thrown in prison for a lonngg time. Well, except for Rush. All immigrants should be kept out of the U.S.A. Who the hell do they think they are, trying to get what we have.
Homosexuals? They are clearly immoral. Criminals, actually. . . guilty of something. Do I actually know any gay
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In the days of the Hollywood studio system, films were classified as “A” or “B” pictures: the former were the studio’s prestige projects, the latter generally shorter and produced cheaply and quickly. Ironically, sometimes “B” pictures are more interesting today because they were less subject to studio control (due to…
For many months, I knew that something horrible was haunting Sophie. Finally, one quiet night, she broke down and told me all of the details about that awful dilemma she faced several years before, while she was a prisoner in a concentration camp. Sophie had arrived at the camp with…