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  In Addition to Libraries, Let's Rally Around Public Gyms Too

  July 26 at 5 a.m.

  It’s always nice to see the Internet rally against a spectacularly dumb idea. Such was the case last weekend, when Panos Mourdoukoutas, writing on Forbes.com, suggested in a post that libraries were bad and could easily be replaced by Amazon. I would love to link you to said post, but...

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  My Response to All Those Accusations of White Guilt

  June 29 at 4 a.m.

  One of the things I get in my mailbox a lot is accusations of white guilt. That is, that I am driven to write social justice articles by a self-loathing brought upon by my own race’s mistreatment of other races. White guilt is a thing. The concept goes all the...

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  5 Signs You’re a “Soft” White Supremacist

  June 13 at 5 a.m.

  A bit ago I wrote a piece called “5 Questions I Want to Ask the White Supremacists Who Vandalized the Rothko Chapel” in response to the dumping of white paint near the Broken Obelisk sculpture dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and the distribution of flyers proclaiming “it’s okay to...

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  Advice for Dudes Who Get in Trouble for Offensive Jokes

  May 21 at 5 a.m.

  This subject came up recently thanks to Richard Ned Lebow, a professor of international political theory at King’s College in London. The professor was in a crowded elevator with colleagues at an academic conference when someone asked what floor he needed to get off on. Lebow responded, “ladies lingerie.” The...

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  The Lost, Lonely Chapel of Nancy Adleman

  May 7 at 5 a.m.

  Houston is a deep city. It’s a place that can offer up some strange wonders if you’re willing to get off the freeway and wander about in the bits that aren’t necessarily recommended for wandering. That’s how I found the lost, lonely chapel of Nancy Buquoi Adleman. It’s a beautiful...

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  My Family Doesn’t Do Funerals

  April 30 at 4 a.m.

  About ten years ago my family began a strange tradition that has become the norm. We don’t do funerals anymore. At all, and I think it’s wonderful. It started with my grandfather, who had been ill for a very long time before he passed away in 2009. It was a...