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Our Aim

By AJ on July 27, 2020

Alma Ata

January 6, A Year On

Two Cartoons by Philalethes

Icarus

TAKE FRANKLIN

By Adam Novak on July 2, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

The screenwriting pariahs gaze around the classroom for a burning bush of support. No one meets their eyes.​​​

Sexual Hystericalism (part 1)

By AJ on June 6, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

“The sex instinct creates a world of its own,” observes George Orwell in 1984.

Auto-da-Fe of the Day

By AJ on February 18, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Those truckers in Canada, count them in too. Look at them, muttering treasonous disinformation from their cheetos stained truck seats.

American Hystericalism (chapter 1)

By AJ on November 6, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Critical Race Theory should be the subject of the most serious debate possible… the fate of this theory will determine the fate of our republic.

Auto-da-fe of the Day

By AJ on November 3, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Too many murders to swallow. Too much mayhem to lose sleep over. Too many thieves giddy for another day of grabbing shit for free.

The Big Story

By Hrach Gregorian on August 20, 2023 • ( 7 Comments )

Dear blood, for too long we have ceded power to the other to grant us peace.

Three Short Meditations on What Was, by Pete Najarian

By Pete Najarian on June 27, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

And so I would learn how hard life could be in the Soviet Union that was supposed to have been our enemy and how beautiful were its people who endured it with the same perseverance as in the third world.

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Hostis Publicus

  • Lake Oswego Schools
    November, 2020
    Claim: Hotbed of Racism
    Consequence: Public Penance
  • MOSCAIC SCIENCE MISSION
    Sept. 2020
    Claim: Sexism (dress code was aimed at curtailing women's realities)
    Consequence: undetermined
  • Drs. Without Borders
    September, 2020
    Claim: Racism, White Savior Complex
    Consequence: undetermined
  • Glossier, Skin Care Company
    September, 2020
    Claim: Racism.
    Consequence: Undetermined
  • Greg Patton, USC Professor
    August, 2020
    Claim: Racism. For describing how Chinese professors use a filler word "nega, nega, nega," between sentences or thoughts, the same as English speakers might say "that that, that."
    Consequence: suspended

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