I read an article from NPR that explored the etymological history of the proverb: “A few bad apples spoil the barrel.” According to the article, the majority meaning for “a few bad apples” has completely reversed from its original import: Back then [in the 19th century], nobody ever talked about “just a few bad apples” […]
Continue reading →Meet Jimmy Williamson. He’s the current Police Chief for the University of Georgia Campus Police. He also should have been fired many times over for any number of wrongdoings: mismanagement, intimidation, corruption, hypocrisy, low employee morale, sexual harassment, racism, wrongful termination, failure to uphold the law, and possibly more. He became the subject of an […]
Continue reading →What would it take for conservatives to dump Donald Trump? This is not a rhetorical question.
Continue reading →Bain Capital, the private equity firm that Mitt Romney founded, is throwing a big election fundraiser in February. You will not believe who it is for.
Continue reading →We hear a lot of talk about The Establishment, but what is it? And how should we oppose it?
Continue reading →Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich is set to revolutionize the internet browser again. This time he will change the way internet ads work.
Continue reading →Bernie Sanders thinks socialism is the fix for corporate corruption when in fact it is the cause.
Continue reading →Blackwashing history is not just a scholarly error. Is blackwashing making it easier for us to repeat the errors of the past?
Continue reading →A first-of-its-kind study by the Almanac of Philanthropy (that’s a great name, isn’t it?) recently uncovered the most charitable population on earth—the United States. That’s right, the American population outstrips all others in gifts to charity! Here are some of the numbers: In a first of its kind survey, the Almanac found that Americans out-donate […]
Continue reading →Yesterday, I explained why no one says nice things about Hitler. I wasn’t finished mining awkward topics for conversation, so today I’m going to talk about why no one says nice things about slavery. Turns out, people are blackwashing slavery for the same reason people are blackwashing Hitler: so they can excuse themselves from any […]
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