For all of Patrick Stein’s life, Southwest Kansas — “God’s country,” he called it — had looked basically the same. Golden fields, white grain elevators, blue sky. But lately it was starting to look different. “Here come a couple of fucking raghead bitches,” Stein announced as he spotted a group of dark-skinned women in long, colorful robes and gauzy scarves walking up the … [Read More]
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For all of Patrick Stein’s life, Southwest Kansas — “God’s country,” he called it — had looked basically the same. Golden fields, white grain elevators, blue sky. But lately it was starting to look different. “Here come a couple of fucking raghead … [Read More]
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You’d think that by now They would have stopped giving Michael Moore such a hard time. Everything he portended in Roger & Me, his 1989 film about the impact of the closing of General Motors plants on his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and everything he has … [Read More]
Stanford Professor Robert Sutton Has a Theory on Why 2017 Is Filled With Jerks
We are living in a world full of assholes. To be sure: There are no census figures to back this up. There is no national registry from which to draw statistics. But one need only look at the headlines to see that the asshole population has not only grown in … [Read More]