Current Affairs
Stop with the woke. You’ll look just as clueless and horrible as everyone else someday.
I can’t stand the notion of being woke. I can’t stand the assertions of those who claim to be woke. For those of you fortunate enough to be unaware of this term, “woke” was originally used to describe a continuing awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice that came to widespread use as…
Read MoreGood news/bad news on the exoneration front
Good news: Lawrence McKinney, 61, jailed for 31 years for a crime he did not commit – rape and burglary – has been awarded one million dollars in compensation from the state of Tennessee. A decidedly different outcome from Lamont McIntyre’s fate, who I wrote about a couple weeks ago. Bad news: It wasn’t easy. And…
Read More23 years lost and nothing offered in return
When Lamonte McIntyre was exonerated for a double murder in October, he walked out of a Kansas prison with a clean record – but not a dime to his name. After losing 23 years of his life behind bars, the state is offering him nothing upon his release. Kansas is one of 18 states that offer…
Read MoreGreatest badass of all time
This is real. A photo of a man in Alberta, Canada mowing a lawn with a tornado swirling behind him. Cecilia Wessels snapped the picture of her husband, Theunis, as the twister passed near their home in Three Hills. She said cutting the grass was on her husband’s to-do list, and as he started the…
Read MoreHeroes have a way of making you realize how small-minded and ungrateful you have been.
Meet former US Special Forces soldier turned humanitarian aid worker David Eubank, running through ISIS gunfire in the embattled Iraqi city of Mosul in order to rescue a toddler who was sitting amidst a pile of dead bodies. Eubank formed the Free Burma Rangers (FBR) as a Christian humanitarian group in 1997, providing emergency relief…
Read MoreBill O’Reilly reminds us that the slaves who built the White House were “well fed and had decent lodgings,” because why?
You have to wonder the thinking behind Bill O’Reilly’s decision to fact-check Michelle Obama’s assertion in her Democratic National Convention speech that she has been living in a home built by slaves. Michelle Obama said: “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. I watch my daughters — two beautiful, intelligent,…
Read MoreThe UK has a new Prime Minister. Unfortunately, it still has a stupid Queen.
The United Kingdom has a lot of problems right now. I don’t mean to pile on. But can’t we all agree that the need to meet and curtsey before some nonsense Queen who only earned her position through a series of ancestral sexual encounters in order to officially be declared Prime Minister is a ludicrous…
Read MoreThe reverse nap. The Trump nomination. Female eligibility in the military draft. People thought I was crazy all three times. Now I get to say those four glorious words.
In October of 2012, I wrote about the reverse nap, a self-described practice in which I get up in the middle of the night, work for an hour or two, and then go back to bed. Later that month, I wrote about how my reverse nap had already been adopted by a handful of readers.…
Read MoreFrom the mouths of babes…
Clara tells me that she doesn’t like Donald Trump. She says that she heard him say mean things to “a lady named Megyn Kelly” on CBS Sunday Morning. “Megyn asked a question, and Donald Trump started making mean compliments about her.” Then she told me that she doesn’t like Ted Cruz because he’s not nice…
Read MoreIf you’re using The Bible to support your opposition to same sex marriage and transgender restroom choice, you’re simply obsessed with penises and vaginas.
It’s not often that you can cheer on corporations for all the good they do, but on Monday, under increasing pressure from major corporations like Unilever, Disney, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and the NFL, Gov. Nathan Deal announced he will veto a bill that critics say would have curtailed the rights of Georgia’s LGBT community. House…
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