Recently, my Google homepage included a link to an article with the following title: Lia Thomas and the long tradition of ‘gender policing’ female athletes The subtitle of the article was as follows: For as long as women have excelled at sports in the modern era, their gender and sexuality have faced fierce scrutiny, historians …
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As a proud white heterosexual man, I proudly present the latest ruminations of my immensely fertile brain. The above sentence is a joke, of course, but only partially so. I’m not a proud white heterosexual man. Pride is the offspring of achievement. I didn’t do anything to achieve my white heterosexual male status. Those are …
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Socialists firmly believe that business profits are the bane of the consumer. If capitalists weren’t greedy bastards trying to maximize profits, consumer goods and services would be much more affordable. It is, therefore, in the mind of a socialist, preferable to shift production toward the government. Politicians aren’t chasing profits, so profits aren’t baked into …
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The biggest reason I think Robert Kiyosaki is a conman is that his real estate sales portal doesn’t exclude anybody. As long as you have a pulse, you’re welcome to join his real estate “seminars.” It doesn’t matter what your income is, what your credit score is, or what blue-collar skills you bring to the …
Here are just some of the slimy dealings I saw at my rinky-dink municipality on Long Island during my 21 years of civil service: Merit raises were bonuses equal to three percent of a recipient’s salary, and 30 to 40 of them were awarded every year by management. But hardly anyone who received a merit …