Child-Toucher Checklist

"€œVirtuous pedophile"€ Todd Nickerson is back and he"€™d like to remind us that although he wants to molest children, he resists, so don"€™t you dare call him a child molester. Once again, Salon is here to correct our grammar ...

A Blizzard of Special Snowflakes

It wasn’t quite the Kent State Massacre, but you wouldn’t know it from the students’ anguished wails. Last Monday morning, students at Emory University here in Atlanta were emotionally triggered by messages scrawled ...

The White Guilt Educational Complex

In celebration of Black History Month, the entire student population of a Virginia high school was assembled together in early February and forced to endure the collective guilt-whipping of a four-minute cartoon called “Structural ...

The Pied Stripper of Canada

"€œExotic dancers. They"€™re not exotic, and they"€™re not dancers,"€ explains comedian Ellen Cleghorne here. "€œIt's like calling a pedophile an "€˜exotic babysitter."€™"€ That joke popped into my head when I read ...

Spare the Job, Wreck the Child

It's a cliché to bitch about how hard it was when you were their age, but Jesus Christ, do the kids today even know what sweat is? I had a relative send me his resume recently and there wasn"€™t one real job on it. He was totally ...

Stop Me if You”€™ve Heard This …

America has been at or on the verge of war with Iraq for as much of my life as I can remember. Now, the John Doe currently known as Barack Obama is bombing the Iraqi insurgency formerly known as al-Qaeda. The whole hubbub makes me ...

Bryan Singer

A Confederacy of Coconuts

"€œI WANT TO BELIEVE,"€ announces The X-Files"€™ Agent Mulder, although silently, via that austere poster on the wall of his dark basement FBI office. It's a declaration of defiance; Mulder was exiled to his subterranean berth by ...

Feminist Fallout: A Roll Call of Regrets

Most women would be happier at home raising a family, and many are just going through the motions by choosing careers. There. I said it. I didn"€™t say women can"€™t have careers and they"€™re not capable of anything more. I ...

Softly Wiping the Chalk From the Blackboard

The 15th annual White Privilege Conference ended on Saturday in Madison, WI. As is usually the case with the locales for such public displays of white ethnomasochism, Madison’s quotient of blacks is roughly half the national ...


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