A little over fifty years ago, NY state police broke up a large meeting in the boondocks town of Apalachin, NY, and one of the results of the ensuing publicity was that, despite years of FBI propaganda to the contrary, Americans started to believe that Our Thing, a well organized national syndicate of gangsters, really [...]
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Post Massacre Mob Confab Revealed
Posted in Far Right Far Out on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Help for pre-adolescent proto-gays
Posted in Far Right Far Out on August 9, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Twisty over at I Blame the Patriarchy (acerbically well-written and very funny) gives props to Norbizness’s expository response to some Very Important Information from Focus on the Family about homosexuality and how to prevent it in children (presumably extermination is the only option for the adults). You can click through from there to the set [...]
Don’t know much about history…
Posted in Far Right Far Out on May 17, 2005 | Comments Off
How often can we make productive connections between the Far Left of sexuality research and the Far Right of Kansas-style science regulation? Not too often!
We learn from today’s NYTimes that "the Darwinian logic behind the female orgasm has remained elusive". This is based on the observation that female orgasm is not required for conception. (Of [...]
Pope smokes dope
Posted in Far Right Far Out on April 3, 2005 | Comments Off
I will admit that I was raised in an anti-Catholic household, for all that I lived in a heavily Catholic town and never saw my parents behave in any kind of bigotted way to any individual face-to-face. In my father, the attitude was partly a remnant of anti-Irish UK views inherited perhaps from his Scottish [...]
Sodom & Gomorrah
Posted in Far Right Far Out on March 31, 2005 | Comments Off
European Pressphoto Agency
Religious leaders
met on Wednesday in Jerusalem in a united protest against a gay pride
festival planned there in August. From left: Sheik Abed es- Salem
Menasra, deputy mufti of Jerusalem; the Rev. Michel Sabbagh, the Latin
patriarch; the Rev. Aris Shirvanian, the Armenian patriarch; Rabbi
Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi; and Rabbi Yona Metzger, the
Ashkenazi chief [...]
DeLay hastens the day?
Posted in Far Right Far Out on March 28, 2005 | Comments Off
A couple of weeks ago I noticed a piece in Forward, the New York Jewish weekly, about far right obstruction of proposed US funding of the now Abbas-led Palestinian Authority.
Defying the wishes of the Bush administration, Congress approved a
foreign-aid package this week forbidding any direct assistance to the
Palestinian Authority and, in a rare snub, denying [...]
Right, To, Life
Posted in Far Right Far Out on March 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been working in Israel for the last two weeks, for really long hours, so I’ve had to store up a number of blogs to come, including some reflections on what is now the "old" Yad Vashem, replaced by a spanking new museum (its Israel’s Holocaust museum); some thoughts about oppression, the oppressed, and fascism [...]
