Thomas Wictor

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Junk science to make you hate yourself

Mother Jones is out with an article titled “The Science of Your Racist Brain,” by Indre Viskontas (not Indrid Cold) and Chris Mooney. It’s absolutely hilarious. More junk science to make you hate yourself for being irredeemably evil. The article initially differentiates between “explicit racists” like Donald Sterling and “implicit racists”—all white people. According to…

 

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Misfortune separates

When everything goes south for you, that’s when you find out who your real friends are. I watched virtually all of Mom’s lifelong buddies desert her as she died. Hardly any even called. Dad didn’t have any friends, but that was how he liked it. After my parents committed suicide, Mike Albee and Lura Dold…

 

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