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Black people who don't fit media narratives

Thanx to onyxlynx

Hereditary ignobility

The meritocratic selection of Princess Jenna Bush for a big media job

Thanx to Making Light.

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* Women are capable of enjoying sex as much as men

* A transgendered woman is not a freak, and does not deserve to be beaten for going on a date with a man

* Sometimes, rape charges are not made up

* Older women are not utterly useless after they are no longer sexually attractive

Raving, deranged feminist expresses these and other extreme sentiments

Thanx to Geek Feminism

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Back in the dark ages before the Internet, we had amateur press associations (apas). You'd get a package of zines and write comments on them. Hard-working, considerate people like John Hertz would make the comments into self-contained mini-essays, but lazy slobs like me would just write quick replies that made no sense unless you had the original mailing in front of you. If you didn't, it would be a cascade of brief gibberish like "ct Melvin: Not really."

These kids on Twitter think they've invented something new.

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Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure

Thanx to wordweaverlynn