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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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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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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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In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.
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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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Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.
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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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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'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'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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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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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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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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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'm more muscular than I was in my younger days. My biceps and shoulders, especially.
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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 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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He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.
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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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It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days a hundred years ago, it was.
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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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