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As reported by The Guardian : " Virginia’s state flag and seal, depicting the Roman goddess Virtus standing over a slain tyrant, her dr...

  The audio of this video is NSFW - and perhaps inappropriate for the 12-year-olds who visit this blog.  But since I have so many Spanish-En...

YouTube link . You either like George Carlin or hate him. If the former, you have probably already heard this rant. If you're in the ...

Yes, yes, I know - this is totally politically incorrect and unworthy of insertion in TYWKIWDBI.  That's why I've closed the comment...

" Very little ammunition is required for a culture war these days , so long as your troops are primed to mobilise at the drop of a blog...

Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, a San Francisco public high school teacher, wrote an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle objecting to the privileges s...

Owning the liberals by sucking on a plastic straw embedded in a meat patty decorated with an incandescent bulb. To be fair and balanced...

And an old-growth forest is not a net producer of oxygen . There are lots of excellent reasons to plant trees, but doing so to sequester c...

"Over objections from a vocal group of alums, the St. Paul school board voted Tuesday evening to drop James Monroe’s name from two sch...

Allison Wint, a substitute teacher at a middle school in Battle Creek, Mich., told the Detroit Free Press that she was hoping to provoke...

From The New Yorker .

Excerpts from the story reported in the StarTribune : Chelley Martinka, a Rhode Island mom... noticed that Cains, a popular pickle brand i...

A new Christmas book puts the issue right in the title: Twas The Night Before Christmas: Edited by Santa Claus for the Benefit of Childre...

One of the most salient comments I've seen in the election aftermath reportedly comes from (of all people) Alec Baldwin: "...

Here is yet another in a seemingly-neverending series of incidents in which schools rigidly enforce "zero tolerance" of sex/drugs/...

Excerpts from an article in the Paris Review (NSFW pix at link): It was, in fact, a prudish French librarian in the early nineteent...

Excerpts from an article at Spiegel Online discussing subtle new neo-Nazi codes: Openly Nazi symbols such as the swastika are banned in Ge...

These lyrics would today be considered at least old-fashioned (and more likely politically incorrect), but the song and dance sequence from...

The above photo was recently displayed above the entrance to a London museum.  Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge of 20th century histo...

But the cooking-places were very very high up, and she could not reach them properly, so she pulled forward the big kettle in which the cook...