John Wayne

Down on The Duke

Last week California lawmakers shot down a proposal to declare May 26th “John Wayne Day” in honor of the iconic actor’s birthday. At issue were comments that ...

Andrew Jackson

Chopping Down Old Hickory

Instead of wishing he"€™d shot Henry Clay, I bet Andrew Jackson is now wishing he could plug Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. This week, Secretary Lew is expected to announce that ...

Feminism Is Ruining Women’s Soccer

"€œEqual pay for equal work should be a fundamental principle of our economy,"€ bellowed President Obama on Tuesday while commemorating Equal Pay Day. "€œIt's the idea that ...

The Good Humor Rapist

One of the biggest viral stories on social media last week was a laughably idiotic Finnish "€œhow to"€ video that ostensibly demonstrates the proper way for women to defend ...

White American Anomie

Angus Deaton and his wife, Anne Case, completed a study last year asserting that the death rates for American middle-aged working-class whites, especially males, have been ...

The Silent Minority

There are more Hispanics in America than blacks. Why aren’t they bitching about this year’s Oscars like blacks are? Don’t misunderstand me, dearest ...

Biting the Hand That Holds Out the Olive Branch

I’ve noticed a trend: The more that white people apologize, the more they get mocked. The more they concede, the more that is demanded of them. The more frequently they make ...

Jumping Off A Sinking Ship Just To Beat The Rush

A study published last Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that between the years 1999 and 2014, white Americans aged 45-54 were the only ...

Islamophobiaphobia

Westerners used to just barge into countries, take them over, and make them better. Before the British invaded, India was just a really hot homeless shelter. The U.K. left in 1947 ...

Our Delicate Muslims

A phone rings in the Oval Office. President Obama drops his practice club and rushes to his desk. Raising the handset of the turquoise-green, crescent-decorated emergency phone to ...

Enough Dead Cops?

"€œNothing is more indicative of white supremacy than the fact that the phrase "€˜Black Lives Matter"€™ is controversial,"€ opines regular CNN guest Marc Lamont Hill. The ...

The Hidden Dangers of Strategically Placed Watermelons

I hope I don’t offend anyone by saying that people are sensitive these days. Like a hypersensitive black gay snail, Vester Flanagan II left behind a slimy trail of ...

The Emperor’s New Stump

While mainstream pop culture and institutional academia busy themselves celebrating and sprinkling glittered confetti upon the “transgendered”"€”a group that mainly ...

You Just Can’t Win

Everyone pities Prometheus, but what about that poor eagle, sentenced to pluck out the same guy's liver every damn morning? Did it ever think, "€œJeez, just once can I get maybe ...

Jim Goad

When Is Cultural Appropriation Inappropriate?

As a humble and dedicated yoga bro in training, my already easily bruised feelings were grievously harmed recently upon learning that what I believed was my benignly tolerant ...

Some Dead Bodies Are More Equal Than Others

The Confederate battle flag was taken down on Friday outside South Carolina’s Statehouse, and barring another Civil War, it is never going up again. This extensively ...


Sign Up to Receive Our Latest Updates!