Dear Uncle Joe: Mr. President, while you are not my uncle Joe, we did grow up in the same neighborhood in Scranton. I know Scranton’s values well. Unfortunately, you lost those values many years ago. You remind me of my old, crazy uncle Timmy. He was an embarrassment to us all. He was a danger…
Flip to the B-side of the record! Here comes another list of five more fantastic tunes to trigger those crazy, third-wave feminist psychos. “Under My Thumb” – The Rolling Stones This bluesy Rock n’ Roll tune by one of the leading groups of the British Invasion of the mid-1960s is sure to make a blue-haired…
Historical reenactors at Colonial Williamsburg may soon be sporting pride flags with their powdered wigs as the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has discovered new lesbian and transgender history associated with the historic site, according to Red State. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation developed a gender diversity committee in 2019 to conduct research for what life was like…
“A non-exhaustive guide to ableist language to avoid. Happy Disability Pride Month! TW ableism Thread”, Queer, disabled author and digital artist Jaecyn Bone wrote on Twitter, Saturday. The tweet and thread have since been deleted, but here are a couple of sample screenshots. Bone then goes on to list terms that one should not use…
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964), one of the most popular TV shows of all time, takes us on a tour of the imagination. It has no boundaries between light and darkness, real and imagined, or place and time. The Twilight Zone explores people in surreal situations. Every stop gives us insight into humanity; how it descends…
I have a running joke with the homeschool kids I teach in our local high school co-op: every single book I teach in their literature classes has been banned somewhere, sometime, for some reason. Because they’re teenagers, they are always a bit shocked (and not-so-secretly thrilled) to learn they are entering the illicit world of…
Born the white-looking bastard son of a dark-skinned Virginia woman in the segregated ‘50s, I easily identify with Fredi Washington’s “Peola,” a light-skinned lass passing for white, in the 1934 film classic “Imitation of Life.” “White passing” is a loathsome, offensive phrase. No one is responsible for the physical cues that others take from one’s…
Mandatory teaching standards that focus on critical theory and identity politics to the detriment of liberalism and individualism are already working their way through state legislatures. Now, math education itself has been deemed “racist.” A group of educators just released a document calling for a transformation of math education that focuses on “dismantling white supremacy…
If there was a video documenting every second of my life, you can bet it would contain some pretty stupid comments I’ve made over the years. I would also probably be reminded of some opinions I no longer believe. If you’re being honest with yourself, yours likely would be equally cringe. The things we have…
“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.” -Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason Earlier…