The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The White Women Conspiracy The inspiration of the world Donald Jeffries I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; White women are the crown jewel of human civilization. God’s most spectacular creation. How many men have lived and died in the hope of attaining their affection? This is a critique, but also a genuine love letter. You turn our heads. You make us do heroic, dangerous, and foolish things. Little White boys all like to show off in front of little White girls. I don’t know, I suppose with the “diversification” of this country, maybe little White boys now show off to little girls of color, too. Maybe they even show off to the “transitioned” they/thems as well. But speaking traditionally, it was the pretty White female who caused White males to spring to their defense. To proudly wear a “shiner” in their honor. True, few have thrown their coats over a puddle since the days of Sir Walter Raleigh, but that instinct still exists. Even if it’s been weakened considerably with...

  Punk Rock Is Dead and we're all Palestinians now. Kalihi Valley Druid Dehumanizing crowd control technology designed by corporate music festivals. Some really depressing video emerged from an incident at the Punk Rock Bowling festival in Las Vegas this week where a middle-age man made the  unforgiveable fashion choice  of showing up wearing a motorcycle club t-shirt with the SS logo on the back. I understand the man’s confusion at being attacked, since he was probably from the gen-x era when the counterculture actually embraced a bit of edginess instead of rigid ideological conformity, soy lattes and gender confusion. The people who self-identify as punks these days apparently consist of what we used to refer to as the Hot Topic crowd, and this transition from DIY chaos to commercial sterilization is what caused most of the old punks to become disillusioned and eventually leave the scene entirely. Ironically enough many of these expats chose off-grid homesteading lifest...