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The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of people who consider themselves 'edgy' are those who only embraced radical ideas LONG after it became safe for them to do so.
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There's a reason the Third World came in third.
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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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To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.
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I've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious, profane, scatological, flat-brained, grade-school offensiveness.
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In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.
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It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.
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Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word multicultural, you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life.
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As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.
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The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.
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I believe that to some degree there are situational and psychological laws of cause-and-effect, but I don't believe there's some Über-soul who doles out justice.
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If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.
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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'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.
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I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.
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What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.
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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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When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.
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I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
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Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.
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