They’re brighter than we are, that’s all.
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Mike’s cocoon
A safe place where one may, or may not, ever grow up.
Scrutinizing whiteness
It’s OK to be white.
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Disgusting smells provoke conservatism
“Angry White Male Studies”
Hey! It’s a college course about guys like me!
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The seductiveness of turmoil.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
My foremost task for today is to keep myself focused on the practical things I need to do to improve my lot in life.
They can be seen as boring, mundane, dreary, tedious, and so on — if I fail to love myself enough to actually want to do them.
Accordingly, this morning I was reading through various news articles, and on one page, at the end, the links to “related” articles included this:
I didn’t read the article, but boy, just that headline really got my engines going. I can’t remember the last time I was in a setting where someone might have been told, “Check your privilege.” Normally this is addressed to a white person, and, as I’ve noted before, in my world there aren’t enough white people to matter.
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