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The "We're the only non-racists in the world, now throw the POCs a cookie" lot are now wittering about "cultural appropriation" which is all very cute and laudable, though slightly ironic given that they are continually guilty of it. However, they are now going on about "stealing" other people's stories, by which they mean the stories belonging to ( Read more... )

Obama hasn't actually done anything impressive. Even releasing the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay seems to be too hard for him. Admittedly, working out the amount of compensation due to them is going to be a long job, but opening the doors, apologising and giving them each a ticket home shouldn't have taken this long ( Read more... )

I found this in a book written in 1604, Characters of Vertues and Vices by Joseph Hall, Bishop of Exeter.

I suspect most of you would see yourselves described here, if you were not so good at overlooking your own best qualities:

Of the true friend.
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Fandom has once again exploded into a fight about racism with people competing to see who can be least racist. As usual, the charge is led by middle class women who are distinctly (but apologetically) caucasian.
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They're talking about Hell again at the Christianity community. All the usual suspects are pontificating about how to react to the "fact" that some people are not as loved by God as they are. Odd how no-one ever says, "Well, of course, I may well be going to Hell ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I looked out of the kitchen window and saw a graceful sparrow, taking feathery nesting material from the tops of the pampas grass ( Read more... )

This was signed by many American Jews of different religious outlooks, united by their humanity and honour. This is why I will not call someone a Jew who calls for the blood of innocents to be shed, because this represents what Judaism is really all about ( Read more... )

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I don't defriend people, as a rule. The only thing that gets you defriended from here is if you attack my friends, repeatedly use foul language in comments or make threats to me.
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