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There's a reason the Third World came in third.

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.
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What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.
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Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a relationship or, heaven forbid, marriage.
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In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.
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I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.
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I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.
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Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on hate-speech laws with frightening eagerness.
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I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.
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I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.
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I can't tell you how many times people - through the anonymity and safety of the Internet, of course - have told me 'You beat women' as if it was an ongoing, daily thing. The only person ever brave enough to say it to my face quickly surrendered his courage when I said, 'Would you like to step outside and see if I can beat men, too?'
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Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.
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My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.
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Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.
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I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.
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I tend not to hang with 'the crowd' because I believe that at any given moment in history, the crowd is only standing somewhere because some lone, brave nutjob broke down the walls for them first.
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I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell its breath - they have a choice: 1) Fall to pieces 2) Reassemble yourself and keep walking.
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The idea of karma reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.
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In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.
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My hatred is diamond-hard.
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I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
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