Monthly Archives: August 2018

What’s Not Beyond The Pale Is Within It

Posted on August 14, 2018 by The Political Hat

     It has become increasingly popular to unperson individuals for wrongthink because merely holding dissenting beliefs puts one beyond the pale of social acceptability. The corollary to this, of course, is that if you set up that standard that what you … Continue reading →

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Tech Overlords of Silicon Valley: Gay Frogs and the Silencing of Dissent

Posted on August 13, 2018 by The Political Hat

…or, whither free speech?      Less than a dozen tech companies have accumulated a de facto monopoly on communication and the ready exchange of information. Increasingly, more and more people, not only in tech, but in politics and elsewhere desire to … Continue reading →

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News of the Week (August 12th, 2018)

Posted on August 12, 2018 by The Political Hat

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Quick Takes – Fragile Youth: Happy Badges; Pronoun Stickers; Triggering Textbooks

Posted on August 9, 2018 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: Gotta protect those emotionally fragile feelings!      First, a little mood music: … Continue reading →

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Queering Ecology

Posted on August 8, 2018 by The Political Hat

     The Eugene Lang College is offering a course on “Queer Ecologies“. The course summary is: “This course will address the interdisciplinary constellation of practices that aim, in different ways, to disrupt prevailing heterosexist discursive and institutional articulations of sexuality and … Continue reading →

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9th Circuit Effectively Bans New Semi-Auto Handguns

Posted on August 7, 2018 by The Political Hat

     Recently, the California state Supreme Court ruled that an impossible to follow gun law, which required that all new guns be equipped with “stamping” technology that does not actually exist, must be followed because complying with it is impossible. Now … Continue reading →

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Nicaraguan Violence & Venezuelan Breaking Points

Posted on August 6, 2018 by The Political Hat

     Demonstrating in Nicaragua that when the going gets tough for Communists, the Communists get tough on the people—with violence. Not only is Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega happily massacring dozens at a time, but he has gone so far as to … Continue reading →

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News of the Week (August 5th, 2018)

Posted on August 5, 2018 by The Political Hat

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CSI: 3rd Reich

Posted on August 3, 2018 by The Political Hat

     Apparently, the fact that there are measurable physical differences, skeletally, between males and females, and that reconstructions from skulls can reveal facial features associated with one race or another is raaacist and that all forensic science is Nazi science or … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Whiteness: Mythology; Geometry; White Hispanics

Posted on August 2, 2018 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: A Whiter Shade of White      First, a little mood music:      Carrying … Continue reading →

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