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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.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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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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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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It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days a hundred years ago, it was.
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Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.
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I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.
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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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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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Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.
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Mind you, I live in an area of Atlanta that is nearly 88% black. But in six days in and around Melbourne, I saw maybe three people of African origin and maybe one easily identifiable Australian aborigine.
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I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
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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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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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When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.
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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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Liberating is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good friends with myself, so nothing anyone says that's truthful about me ever bothers me.
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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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If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.
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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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I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.
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It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world.
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