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A literary review in The New Republic of a collection of short stories that is currently #22 on the hardcover fiction bestseller list:
Roxane Gay’s Masterpieces of Private Rage
DIFFICULT WOMEN by Roxane Gay Grove Press, 272 pp., $25.00
The stories in “Difficult Women” tackle the intimate realities of race and gender in America.
Reviewed BY RAFIA ZAKARIA
January 27, 2017
A little over two years ago, a grand jury announced they would not prosecute Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. I was in Ferguson the night of the verdict, and happened to speak to the white owner of a bike shop not far from the police headquarters where the crowds had congregated. “We had no idea our neighbors were so angry,” the man told me after I had used the restroom. I remembered his words later as the streets erupted, crowds pulsing with passion became riotous, and the air filled with fire and tear gas and sorrow.
Much has been written about the insularity of white America, particularly since then. Many analyses of the riven edges of American race relations have been astute and revelatory, exposing realities that have been for too long omitted from public debate. But the violence of exclusion is not limited to our public institutions: Racism, and reflexes learned in response to it, seep deep into our inner lives and shape our most intimate relationships. Manifestations of all of these very private American realities can be found in the pages of Difficult Women, Roxane Gay’s debut short story collection. The protagonists of her stories are not always black or brown, nor always women, but they are, all of them, complicit in the infliction or perpetration of intimate violence, racked by secret desires and seething rage. All of it deftly and terrifyingly underscores the absurdity of a society tacitly ordered by skin color and the privileges accrued by those who have ended up at the winning end, circled and watched by those who have not.
One of the most powerful stories in the collection, titled “La Negra Blanca,” features William Livingston III, a rich white man obsessed with black culture and black women. He satisfies this predilection by visiting strip clubs where he can pay Sierra—a biracial dancer who looks white but has inherited her black mother’s booty—to dance in his lap. Sierra, however, is not the origin of Livingston’s obsession; in a hidden closet he “keeps the urban clothing he sends his assistant to West Baltimore to purchase—Sean John jeans and Phat Farm hoodies and Timberland boots.” His understanding of what kids are wearing these days is dated, Gay notes, but it doesn’t keep Livingston from putting on his clothes and “posing in front of the full-length mirror and grabbing a handful of denim-clad crotch.” The scene is redolent with transgression, Livingston’s foray into blackness secret and forbidden. There is, of course, a family history of this obsession. In a moment of father-son bonding, William Livingston II and William Livingston III gather to ogle their black former housekeeper. Livingston the Elder dutifully reminds his son, however, that “you can look boy, but you cannot touch.”
There is, it turns out, no need for such caution. Livingston’s wife, a Connecticut transplant, is willfully ignorant as her husband sits in his study listening to gangster rap on his expensive headphones, surveilling via secret cameras the black housekeeper he has already sexually assaulted. This is not the limit of his violence. When Sierra, the white stripper with the black booty, rejects his advances, he follows her home and then brutally rapes her. When Alvarez, Sierra’s crush (whom she cannot understand because he speaks no English), returns and finds her violated, he wants to call the police. Sierra stops him: “occupational hazard,” she says. William Livingston III gets away with everything.
Just like Haven Monahan got away with everything.
Rafia Zakaria is an attorney, a political philosopher and the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan.
@rafiazakaria
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OT: To the Ian Welsh article from the other day [he’s a Sandersista, but writes excellent political analysis], WaPo reports today that some sanity broke out amongst congressional Republicans during the Q&A part of a panel discussion on Obamacare repeal at the Philly meeting.
Worryingly, however, they report that the Trump administration representatives on the panel were a bad influence, extremely insistent on rapid repeal and replacement with LibertarianCare.
If Trump replaces ObamaCare with LibertarianCare tens of millions of people will lose their health insurance — virtually every American will at least have friends and family who lose insurance — and he will lose reelection in a landslide.
Trump also told Ryan yesterday that repealing Dodd-Frank would be a “top priority” of his first 100 days. Financial regulations like Dodd-Frank or Glass-Steagall don’t really have much effect on the business cycle or the economy one way or another, the Fed’s monetary policy is what matters.
However, 99.9% of people don’t understand that, and next time there’s a recession, stock market crash or credit crunch (stock market crashes and credit crunches happen even more frequently than recessions) the media will S C R E A M that it was caused by Trump repealing Dodd-Frank, and the public will believe them.
If Pres. Bob Dole had repealed Glass-Steagall, it would be conventional wisdom (not only among edgy internet people) that’s what caused the 2008 recession. It would’ve been blamed for the 2001 recession too. And this despite the media being much more chill about the Dole Administration.
Besides, Wall Street donated/voted 10-1 for Clinton, and they’ll do the same in 2020. Why reward them?
People were saying having Pence and Priebus in the administration was a good thing because it would help Trump control Ryan. It’s clear that the opposite is true. Trump needs to #FirePriebus and stop listening to Pence if he wants to have any prayer of winning reelection or leaving a positive legacy.
Now would be the time to just go through the motions and let all the bad that PelosiCare has to offer materialize just before the next set of mid-terms!
On topic for once, the summarized story reads like a lightly-altered novelization of Jud Süß.
Apologies to Mike Godwin, but I don’t think it’s hyperbole anymore to say the left is reaching Nazi levels of hate.
Sometimes I wonder how you digest this kind of – well what is this: An intellectual habit, clamor, hue, exorcism, modern desperate times fairy tale?!
I got as far as “intimate realities of race and gender.”
“Intimate realities” applied to women somehow always calls to mind my mother’s modest shyness over the rubber contraption with hoses she’d hide in the hall closet up where the kids couldn’t reach.
Even though TNR is, of course, talking about diametrically opposite women and phenomena.
Hate Fantasy? Rape Fantasy? Both?
Shiite?
What’s that?
Andrea Twerkin?
Well done!
I call bullshit on her story. A white business owner in north St Louis County who doesn’t know that blacks are angry? Don’t believe it.
Why on earth did we allow this Zakaria woman into the country that our ancestors built?
Meh. Needs moar whippings.
Roxane Gay is just further proof of Steve Sailer’s rule about female journalists, who believe society and culture should change so they are perceived as being hotter. Some dumpy mulatto stripper can attract a wealthy white man only in the Gay’s fertile imagination. It just doesn’t happen in real life. In real life a well healed white man finds himself a white or Asian teenybopper to do drugs with, like the 50 year old headmaster of that Marin county private school, arrested a couple years ago in a Sacramento motel room with an unconscious blond white girl and a stash of heroin.
I can’t find the reference, but the recent commenter here who noted that this kind of is projection… yup.
No, the William Livingston III’s of the world do not go around erotically obsessing over urban youth. They just don’t think about them all that much.
Today I Learned from Professor Gay’s Wikipedia bio that she is Haitian, bisexual, a survivor of sexual assault, and an alum of Philips Exeter Academy and Michigan Technological University.
This episode of “This American Life,” entitled “Tell Me I’m Fat,” features interviews with noted feminists Lindy West and Roxane Gay.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/589/transcript
Gay is also a competitive Scrabble player in the U.S.[29] -wikipedia
Iman was born Zara Mohamed Abdulmajid in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. She was later renamed Iman at her grandfather's urging. Iman is the daughter of Marian and Mohamed Abdulmajid. Her father was a diplomat and a former Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and her late mother was a gynecologist. She has four siblings: two brothers, Elias and Feisal, and two younger sisters, Idil and Nadia. (Wikipedia)
Jud Süß, for the lazy, is a Nazi propaganda film about a Jew who likes to dress up as a Christian and rape Christian women, using his wealth and influence to get away with it.
White-on-black rapes, btw, are such a rarity that they can usually be counted on one’s fingers, per the FBI numbers. In a recent year, 2004 I think, they recorded zero. I bet most of the ones that do happen are prison rape with male victims.
Zuck has a new post up on Trump and Immigration:
It’s over folks.
RIP USA.
Mick Jagger could do better.
A bicycle shop in Ferguson is undoubtably a front for selling bicycles stolen by the brothers. I have a hard time believing the white owner doesn’t have his finger on the pulse of the ghetto. He probably ends up selling the same bicycle four or five times.
Worryingly, however, they report that the Trump administration representatives on the panel were a bad influence, extremely insistent on rapid repeal and replacement with LibertarianCare.
If Trump replaces ObamaCare with LibertarianCare tens of millions of people will lose their health insurance — virtually every American will at least have friends and family who lose insurance — and he will lose reelection in a landslide.
Trump also told Ryan yesterday that repealing Dodd-Frank would be a “top priority” of his first 100 days. Financial regulations like Dodd-Frank or Glass-Steagall don’t really have much effect on the business cycle or the economy one way or another, the Fed’s monetary policy is what matters.
However, 99.9% of people don’t understand that, and next time there’s a recession, stock market crash or credit crunch (stock market crashes and credit crunches happen even more frequently than recessions) the media will S C R E A M that it was caused by Trump repealing Dodd-Frank, and the public will believe them.
If Pres. Bob Dole had repealed Glass-Steagall, it would be conventional wisdom (not only among edgy internet people) that’s what caused the 2008 recession. It would’ve been blamed for the 2001 recession too. And this despite the media being much more chill about the Dole Administration.
Besides, Wall Street donated/voted 10-1 for Clinton, and they’ll do the same in 2020. Why reward them?
People were saying having Pence and Priebus in the administration was a good thing because it would help Trump control Ryan. It’s clear that the opposite is true. Trump needs to #FirePriebus and stop listening to Pence if he wants to have any prayer of winning reelection or leaving a positive legacy.Replies: @fish
Now would be the time to just go through the motions and let all the bad that PelosiCare has to offer materialize just before the next set of mid-terms!
Eventually stuff like this will end up in a museum exhibit. It will be right at the beginning of the exhibit, in a glass case, in one of those artfully-composed collages, with a big, blown-up photo in the center. The title will be something like, “Prologue: The Roots of the Crisis.”
Typically the reviewer , a Paki couldn’t get out of the shithole her homeland is fast enough . And now she’s found a soft berth slagging off the host culture .
As for Ms . Gay : “Gay was featured in a 5-minute segment of This American Life on June 17, 2016, talking about her body, and how she is perceived as a fat person.” Maybe she would be happier self identifying as an aquatic mammal.
Gay apparentrly claims to have been raped in the woods at 12 years old by a gang of boys including the one she had been giving bl-wjobs too for a while.
But they don’t seem rich. Might have been white. She grew up in Nebraska of all places.
http://therumpus.net/2012/04/what-we-hunger-for/
Non-white women project pathologies of their own ethnic male kin onto whites. In the real world, they are obsessed with whites to extent they must establish us as monsters to repel them at least on a wishful-thinking level. Otherwise, they’re lost in honkimania.
William Livingston III. That is funny.
Thurston Howell III. He doesn’t look so mean.
I noticed the Pakistani Muslim woman felt comfortable enough to ask a white small businessman to use his restroom. Surely she should have been worried that the bike shop proprietor would have been overcome with lust and raped her in it or, had she tried this in South Waziristan been stoned to death as a prostitute.
I am amused by her use of ‘upstairs’ in the title. I spent almost seven years in the kingdom during the early 2000’s. I very much enjoy Saudis and caution anyone against believing anything said about them. They are what they are, and they are fervent believers in Islam. That does not make them killers.
But my point about ‘upstairs’ is an Iraqi joke about the ‘upstairs uncle’. The upstairs uncle is the queer one, the one who assaults the younger brothers visiting the home. So I believe she is saying the upstairs wife would be the wife no one ever talks about.
Class libel.
so are whites completely ignorant of black sentiment or do they secretly obsess over them in every possible way? so confused
Picture instantly reminded me of this.
Will have to ask about Daniel Jackson. And I'll probably regret it, too...Replies: @Altai
“One of the most powerful stories in the collection”
“Powerful” is obviously a typo for “unlikely”. Don’t TNR have proofreaders any more?
I presumed it had something to do with Dr. Livingston.
Before I ceased reading the NY Times, I often pondered whether opinion columnist Charles Blow or Roxane Gay wrote more incessantly and stridently about racism, “white privilege,” and “blackness.” In the end, I concluded that Roxane Gay took second place to Charles Blow. He writes about little else besides racism and “blackness” and she mixes “blackness” with literature, not that her literary focus really dilutes any of her toxicity. Mr. Blow and Ms. Gay, two of the top ten reasons to ignore the NY Times.
A rich white guy by the name of Livingston, no less, sits around secretly listening to gangsta rap. Yeah, right. The author is one sick cookie. It’s a revelation that there’s an audience for these sorts of bizarre fantasies. I wonder what the profile of the typical reader might be.
“alum of Philips Exeter Academy”
Talk about privilege. For non-Americans, that’s the most upper class secondary school in the entire US, equivalent to Eaton in the UK.
I heard this odious author being interviewed on NPR a few weeks back. She was talking about the trauma of constantly being stuck in cycles of dieting.
I’m not surprised that the elite Asians who have immigrated to the US and their children have achieved such instant success in the anti-White, racial victimization game. With their high cognitive abilities they quickly grasped where the power and status is in our society and systematically used those talents to move into the racket. Great way to tear down the White competition for the top of the totem pole and get an edge. They used to fight to get classified as White but now see where the juice is and are going for being classified as non-White ethnicities.
The problem may be what happens when the other Brown groups see themselves being displaced, especially if Asians succeed in getting themselves fully qualified for oppressed peoples, affirmative action bennies and become competitors for those perks. Might be a little push back developing then?
Fortunately for all concerned, the plumber was already gone.
Anti-racist porn? Anti-white-cishet porn?
How SJWs get rich writing their rape fantasies. Yup.
Anais Nin meets Tennessee Coates.
Talk about privilege. For non-Americans, that's the most upper class secondary school in the entire US, equivalent to Eaton in the UK.Replies: @Percy Gryce
Eton remains single-sex and presumably elite. Will Exeter remain elite under a regime of coeducation and diversity?
Several of the largest American private foundations (Ford, Mellon, Kellogg) now have black presidents and are reshaping their missions toward diversity. Will they remain elite on such a path? (Or would they, but for their billions?)
The American Bar Association is now requiring continuing legal education panels to have diverse presenters. Will CLE retain any worth?
I don’t know why anyone would donate to you: you’re “work” is incredibly lazy, just snarky commentary.
NO DONATIONS FOR YOU!
To the left, I guess this story confirms everything they know about how the world works.
To me, it reads like an episode of the outer limits. The premise is “wouldn’t it be weird if reality were inverted?”
No, the William Livingston III's of the world do not go around erotically obsessing over urban youth. They just don't think about them all that much.
Today I Learned from Professor Gay's Wikipedia bio that she is Haitian, bisexual, a survivor of sexual assault, and an alum of Philips Exeter Academy and Michigan Technological University.
This episode of "This American Life," entitled "Tell Me I'm Fat," features interviews with noted feminists Lindy West and Roxane Gay.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/589/transcriptReplies: @Clyde, @Anonymous, @snorlax, @Anonymous
And what public university does she work at? Meaning, how exactly is she ripping off the taxpayers? Answer is, she gets a paycheck from Purdue so is ripping off Indiana taxpayers.
Gay is also a competitive Scrabble player in the U.S.[29] -wikipedia
NO DONATIONS FOR YOU!Replies: @Gunnar von Cowtown
Shut up and make Steve a sandwich, Roxane.
This idiocy is pure projection. It’s nothing more than the leftist fantasy of what they want to believe white men are like.
As a white man, I can personally attest that you couldn’t pay me enough money to listen to gangster rap and then rape a black chick and some heroin-addicted stripper with “black booty.”
Exactly. Their projections are just seriously weird. I mean, they could just fact check it by going to any average porn site and seeing what the most common searches are for.
Steve, this is so nakedly transparent and at odds with reality, that I feel a bit bad laughing at it. Beautiful, classy black women sought after by white men? Absolutely. But this? Oh, Lord! Dying!!
This type of rape fantasy seems so commonplace with Lefty and Black women, but I’m not familiar with anything like it for conservative women. Maybe it exists and I haven’t seen it?
I’m surprised she didn’t name the wealthy white guy Thurston Howell III. So he is sexually obsessed with black women and when rejected by one special one,of course,rapes her. No doubt she based this on a real life event,but with a few,er,adjustments. Not that wealthy white men can’t be predators. There’s Jeffrey Epstein for one.
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/91605/hilton-howell-multitasks-tv-and-insurance
He married the daughter of Atlanta's Mack Robinson, who in 1989 or 1990 was #393 on the Forbes 400 list. His wife was a close friend of my law-school girlfriend, and we spent a lot of time together. Later I dated a friend of his from Waco. He was a good guy -- probably still is.
It is depressing as hell that a ludicrous story like that can be called “powerful.”
It's a window into what this woman likes and how she wishes the world operated. Sure, it isn't fair that there's a "white men are bad" gloss over it, but rape fantasies are incredibly difficult to make respectable, aren't they?
The stench of a backed-up toilet on a hot day may be called "powerful".
As for Ms . Gay : "Gay was featured in a 5-minute segment of This American Life on June 17, 2016, talking about her body, and how she is perceived as a fat person." Maybe she would be happier self identifying as an aquatic mammal.Replies: @Cat Lady
How did they squeeze her into 5 minutes?
Well, the white dudes are getting away with raping black women and have been, well, since forever.
According to DOJ statistics, only a handful of white men are arrested/prosecuted every year for this crime, so it is the norm for white guys to get away with this, the justice system obviously, by its own statistical evidence/admission, turning a blind eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlcYIKYrjJMReplies: @Dahlia, @Anon87
Hilarious! O/T, but my husband is currently watching Stargate again. None of the characters make him sperg out, but, my Lord!, there was one who did on the Next Generation: the short-haired blonde lady who was constantly bringing up a past rape. My husband was far more histrionic and emotive than Conan’s guy, though.
Will have to ask about Daniel Jackson. And I’ll probably regret it, too…
I don’t see it’s ridiculousness as depressing, not really.
It’s a window into what this woman likes and how she wishes the world operated. Sure, it isn’t fair that there’s a “white men are bad” gloss over it, but rape fantasies are incredibly difficult to make respectable, aren’t they?
OT: RIP actor John Hurt, played Kane in Alien.
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/john-hurt-dead-dies-elephant-man-alien-1201971891/
Wow,...........Caligula died. He was also good in A Man For All Seasons as the scheming, cynical, and yet not altogether unsympathetic Richard Rich. And I also liked him in Contact, as the mysterious billionaire who built the worm-hole machine.
A great acting talent - RIP.
Is she by any chance related to CNN talking head, pakistani Willem Dafoe impersonator, and all-round smug globalist douche-bag, Fareed Zakaria?
No, the William Livingston III's of the world do not go around erotically obsessing over urban youth. They just don't think about them all that much.
Today I Learned from Professor Gay's Wikipedia bio that she is Haitian, bisexual, a survivor of sexual assault, and an alum of Philips Exeter Academy and Michigan Technological University.
This episode of "This American Life," entitled "Tell Me I'm Fat," features interviews with noted feminists Lindy West and Roxane Gay.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/589/transcriptReplies: @Clyde, @Anonymous, @snorlax, @Anonymous
Something along those lines was said here: https://www.unz.com/isteve/kkkrazy-glue-hate-hoaxers-as-the-boy-who-cried-dire-wolf/
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/john-hurt-dead-dies-elephant-man-alien-1201971891/Replies: @Mr. Anon
“OT: RIP actor John Hurt, played Kane in Alien.”
Wow,………..Caligula died. He was also good in A Man For All Seasons as the scheming, cynical, and yet not altogether unsympathetic Richard Rich. And I also liked him in Contact, as the mysterious billionaire who built the worm-hole machine.
A great acting talent – RIP.
Mr. Zakaria is from India and Ms. Zakaria from Pakistan so they aren’t closely related.
“It is depressing as hell that a ludicrous story like that can be called “powerful.””
The stench of a backed-up toilet on a hot day may be called “powerful”.
“Mr. Zakaria is from India and Ms. Zakaria from Pakistan so they aren’t closely related.”
I thought he was pakistant, but now that you mention it, yes, I remember he is Indian. Of course, they used to be the same country, but perhaps it is a common name.
One thing that Zakaria definitely cannot be called though – not really – is American.
No, the William Livingston III's of the world do not go around erotically obsessing over urban youth. They just don't think about them all that much.
Today I Learned from Professor Gay's Wikipedia bio that she is Haitian, bisexual, a survivor of sexual assault, and an alum of Philips Exeter Academy and Michigan Technological University.
This episode of "This American Life," entitled "Tell Me I'm Fat," features interviews with noted feminists Lindy West and Roxane Gay.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/589/transcriptReplies: @Clyde, @Anonymous, @snorlax, @Anonymous
Philips Exeter is the #2 prep school in the country (after Philips Andover) and a “feeder” for the Ivy League, which ~80% of students wind up matriculating to. To be both black and a Philips Exeter alum and yet have gone to a no-name college means she must have had serious academic or behavioral issues.
RIP USA.Replies: @ben tillman, @Olorin
He’s a lying sack of shit. I can find plenty of people in Dallas who need help, and I guarantee you his doors will be closed to them. What’s ours is theirs, and what’s his is his.
Why are rich people in modern American fiction always WASPs? These people are always stuck sixty years in the past.
Hilton Howell Jr. is the closest I’ve ever come in real life:
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/91605/hilton-howell-multitasks-tv-and-insurance
He married the daughter of Atlanta’s Mack Robinson, who in 1989 or 1990 was #393 on the Forbes 400 list. His wife was a close friend of my law-school girlfriend, and we spent a lot of time together. Later I dated a friend of his from Waco. He was a good guy — probably still is.
Same reason Archie Bunker is a WASP.
Will have to ask about Daniel Jackson. And I'll probably regret it, too...Replies: @Altai
I was never bothered by him, but the replacement character really bothered me. Primarily because he came from another planet but acted like a typical American, down to his mannerisms and slang.
The show was always great in that Daniel would always need to translate for Russians, Chinese etc but never humans taken from Earth 10k years ago or even other species…
Though interestingly there is one episode where they conclude one side in a war is inherently evil because they incidentally mention that they are ethnically homogeneous but their opponents are multi-ethnic. With no other information they decide to intervene and the other side destroys the entire civilisation, women, children and all. At no point did they even meet the other side.
Apparently decidedly not a starving author. Say what you will about the personal defects of writers over the years, but morbid obesity is usually not one of them. I’m overweight myself but Gay looks like she uses a scooter to get around. A very sturdy scooter. I might’ve tried reading her stuff about 20 or so years ago. Now I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This is literature that has less to do w/reality than sci-fi or fantasy. To read this sort of bilge is not to gain an insight into human character but only to get a glimpse at a really bat-shit crazy world view which despite the ascendency of Trump, more & more in our society are being raised to believe is true despite the everyday facts of mere existence.
No, the William Livingston III's of the world do not go around erotically obsessing over urban youth. They just don't think about them all that much.
Today I Learned from Professor Gay's Wikipedia bio that she is Haitian, bisexual, a survivor of sexual assault, and an alum of Philips Exeter Academy and Michigan Technological University.
This episode of "This American Life," entitled "Tell Me I'm Fat," features interviews with noted feminists Lindy West and Roxane Gay.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/589/transcriptReplies: @Clyde, @Anonymous, @snorlax, @Anonymous
Take a lesson from Mick Jagger and David Bowie: White men of any means with a case of jungle fever do not, ever, just go after low grade random black underclass women. Jagger dated and impregnated a successful black stage actress and Bowie married a model and former NBA wife.
Iman was born Zara Mohamed Abdulmajid in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. She was later renamed Iman at her grandfather’s urging. Iman is the daughter of Marian and Mohamed Abdulmajid. Her father was a diplomat and a former Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and her late mother was a gynecologist. She has four siblings: two brothers, Elias and Feisal, and two younger sisters, Idil and Nadia. (Wikipedia)
I’d like to see Charles Blow being brutally sodomized by Van Jones. It has nothing to do with their views,I just think it would be fun to see. I’m not well.
When GWB was president, assassination fantasies were a thing and so were rape fantasies of conservative female politicians. Leftists have moved further violently with attacking citizens and trying to realize an assassination...
I'm anxious. Not scared, but definitely anxious.
RIP USA.Replies: @ben tillman, @Olorin
I’ll start worrying when he hires Stephens Miller and Bannon away from Team Trump.
Being young, Zuckerberg has a lot of relatively idle years to fill with political machinations and imperial pretensions.
But he’s one of those guys who didn’t get their money through work or talent. His money’s a fluke, like hitting the lottery.
The crapstream above is a globo-catechized moaning davening to all the proper idols.
Oh puhLEEZE. That is so 1980s/American Playhouse/Warner/Coca-Cola Jaime Escalante.
We’ve come a long way in the past 35 years in understanding population genetics. This Bubble Decade darling wants to keep us all stuck in the Age of Reagan, Clinton, and Bush. Oh yeah, and Alan Greenspan.
I’m not sure how you can say it’s “number 2”. I wouldn’t trust any of the sketchy rankings posted online. One thing you can take to the bank, though: Exeter has the largest endowment.
Andrea Twerkin!!!
Well done!
I told my brother, who is not inclined to think deeply about statistics and things, about these stats, and he replied, “No shit, a black woman would fuck you up.”
It is scary to me to see the liberal blue checks on twitter openly glorify violence. The only person of any renown who is a Nazi is Weev, but they’re happy someone not even in his orbit got punched.
When GWB was president, assassination fantasies were a thing and so were rape fantasies of conservative female politicians. Leftists have moved further violently with attacking citizens and trying to realize an assassination…
I’m anxious. Not scared, but definitely anxious.
Of course, all white men secretly yearn for black women, which is why every single female slave was raped by every white man every day. Don’t you read history?
I was sexually obsessed with Ginger and Mary Ann when I was a nipper…
Muslim women seem to be over-represented among the big complainers in our society (in their own, they are silent and wear garbage bags)
(Cough) Robert Di Nero (cough) Bill Burr.
It’s my personal assessment; if you wanted to send your child to a prep school, Exeter would be your #2 choice.
CCZ, Gay and Blow in the same sentence and you are talking about the NYT. Seems right.
Sam, people like Ms. Gay say they are fat-shamed and forced into a cycle of dieting, but they never mention the serious health risks associated with being morbidly obese, and that’s why the word morbid describes their condition.
Father, Yeah, pure projection, but have you noticed how many NFL players’ names are followed by II, or III or even (not making this up) The IIII. Shouldn’t that be IV ? My daughter counseled a young black boy whose name ended with III. My daughter asked the mother if her son was named after his father or his grandfather and the mother answered, ” No. Why would you ask that” They use II and III like a piece of bling.
Sometimes this blog makes me so angry.
It’s possible that Ms. Zazooki’s prose is elegant enough to justify her transparent slanders (I am thinking of Mirbeau’s similar bestialisation of his political enemies) but somehow I doubt it!
Michiko K. will make or break this one, I suppose. She hasn’t written about Ms. Bazooka’s book yet, but she did recently suggest that “1984” will be *the* book of 2017. If only she understood how right she is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlcYIKYrjJMReplies: @Dahlia, @Anon87
Agree, that instantly popped in my head as well. The left’s current meltdown comes off about as well as Pierre Bernard’s old rants about nerdy nonsense. Too bad Conan turned into an uber-lib, but that’s what moving to LA does to people.
Update: The dean of USC medical school, Carmen Puliafito. His little piece of blonde fluff is definitely a looker.