I played with this guy once in Liverpool. It was a show produced by David Guest and his little people and we played or the acts Denise Williams and the Stylistics. That was one fun gig. I think he was 19 at the time. I heard that this guy was great even before we started,…
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“The “I was born in the wrong body” rhetoric favored by other trans people doesn’t work any better and is just as offensive, reducing us to our collective breasts and vaginas. Imagine the reaction if a young white man suddenly declared that he was trapped in the wrong body and, after using chemicals to change…
Read moreEx-New York Knick – Allan Houston – Makes Documentary About Fatherhood
Title IX, the All-Purpose Leftist Excuse because It allows persecution of anyone who contravenes feminist doctrine.
An Excerpt from this article: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419344/title-ix-all-purpose-leftist-excuse-david-french If you are a dissenting professor or a male student in modern American higher education, there is a chance that you’ll be subjected to legal proceedings so bizarre, so opaque, and so unfair that you won’t believe they could happen in the United States of America. On the basis of…
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Why do high-profile campus rape stories keep falling apart?
An excerpt from this article in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/06/02/why-do-high-profile-campus-rape-stories-keep-falling-apart/ At Slate, Emily Yoffe digs into the one of the poster cases for the anti-campus rape advocacy film “The Hunting Ground” and finds some devastating flaws in how the movie portrays what happened. [Kamilah] Willingham’s story is not an illustration of a sexual predator allowed to…
Read more#Motown the Musical Tour 2015
I’m joining the Motown tour in Los Angeles for just this week. It should be fun for a number of reasons.. 1) I loved subbing for Buddy Williams in the Broadway production 2) I get to play with one of my favorite bass players and guitarist and 3) I get to be in warm weather,…
Read moreShooting from the Hip: Camille Paglia sends #feminists into a frenzy.
Camille Paglia is one truly interesting person. This in an excerpt from an old article, but a great read. Originally posted here: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/shooting-from-the-hip-camille-paglia-sends-feminists-into-a-frenzy-she-reveres-masculinity-its-hot-tried-to-match-male-promiscuity-i-couldnt-and-believes-date-rape-is-an-occupational-hazard-sex-is-combat-is-there-any-serious-point-here-or-is-she-all-motormouth-1479082.html Paglia not only envies but reveres what she identifies as men’s naturally raucous sexuality. It is brutal masculine lust, she says, that drives men out into the world, away from the potency…
Read moreHistorian Says Don’t ‘Sanitize’ How Our Government Created Ghettos
Fifty years after the repeal of Jim Crow, many African-Americans still live in segregated ghettos in the country’s metropolitan areas. Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, has spent years studying the history of residential segregation in America. “We have a myth today that the ghettos in metropolitan areas around the country…
Read moreNew Orleans FUNK
I LOVE New Orleans. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never come to NYC after college. I think I would be somewhere down south. In Atlanta, in Southern CA, in Austin, Maui…or New Orleans – anywhere but the north. I can’t stand the cold weather. There is something about the…
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