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I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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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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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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It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days a hundred years ago, it was.
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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'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.
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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 prefer for a woman's most private of areas to have as much hair as Carlos Santana's entire band, head to toe, circa 1972.
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I'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.
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Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
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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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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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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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I believe human sexuality is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something ennobling and empowering, to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as sex workers and god
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People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.
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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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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.
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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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What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.
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Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.
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