Freedom to Offend

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News of the World - Putin Crazed Republicans Rush Stage To Wipe His Feet With Their Tears
Not totally true, but pretty close. -- He has a face like a hamster. See below for the button to the non-hit song, "Burn in Hell Hamster Face"
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I said I stood with Israel and my world crumbled: The Savage Machine: A Kafkaesque Nightmare of Betrayal and Institutional Cruelty, A World…
To the Jewish grandmother, to those who showed such kindness at the synagogue book launch.
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Joining Forces
You know how all those people on Instagram look nothing like their IG pics? With the pictures below I'm just as guilty. But my dog is a pretty accurate…
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She was a neurologist in Russia. She wanted to practice in Canada.
The first doctor she went to meet didn't show up for her meeting. But she was determined and never gave up.
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“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
Fourteen months into a professorial suspension because I called Hamas Nazis: Some reflections, some bald truth, a ton of depression, packs of wolves in…
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Dog Grief is Real. But like all grief in America, we must bury it quickly and move on.
When Dylan Thomas told us to rage against the dying of the light he spoke of his father, but the pain from losing a beloved pet is also brutal and rips…
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Riffing on Dylan Thomas*
* (Welsh poet who wrote “Do not go gently into that good night” about his feelings surrounding his dying father) This was hard to write.
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The Emperor’s New Woke Clothes: A Postcolonial, Decolonized, and Anti-Oppressive Reimagining
Academic Writing: The art of creating creating confusion, overdressing simplicity, creating layers ofjargon and infinite syllables while mindlessly…
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Grievance Elves vs. Meritocratic Mythmakers: A Tale of Societal Hubris
Identity politics and meritocracy, it doesn't have to be one or the other.
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Climate Change According to H. L Mencken and George Orwell
Okay, not really, they are both dead but they would have probably agreed with me.
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News of the World - All Liberal MPs Quit to Spend Time with Family - Even Orphans.
Not totally true, but pretty close
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Do NDAs Apply to Bad Dreams?
Bad dreams are just random neurological noise that interupt sleep so any connection to reality is obviously coincidental. :)
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