I got in a car accident a while ago. Everybody’s fine, no injuries at all; quite a blessing considering I had the entire family in the van. A trio of young roosters were taking their daddy’s Mercedes out on the town of a Saturday night and were blatantly at fault. Around here, unless the accident […]
Author Archives: bingregory
Why Most Mass Murderers are White Men
“White men from prosperous families grow up with the expectation that our voices will be heard. We expect politicians and professors to listen to us and respond to our concerns. We expect public solutions to our problems. And when we’re hurting, the discrepancy between what we’ve been led to believe is our birthright and what […]
On Flunking a Nice Boy Out of School
A mimeograph of John Ciardi’s poem was waiting on each boy’s desk as we took our seats for the first class on the first day of 7th grade at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy. I nearly fainted. Amazingly, my mother kept the sheet of paper all these years. RIP, Wendell Hall: […]
Stryker’s War
I’ve boasted before about how Sam Raimi directed the nintendo commercial I was in, but it wasn’t the only time we were both involved in a production. He and I both starred in a movie! Well, I had one line. And he plays a villainous hippy in a bad wig. And it wasn’t much of […]
suicide, expatriation, or revolt
The higher education bubble will not pop because student loan debt is not dischargeable. There are no bills in congress on the horizon to address the student loan problem. The government won’t fix it because it is making money: Not only are student loans not a burden on the federal government, they’re a good investment. […]
Ethiopia: Eid in Addis Ababa
Eid in Addis Ababa from Raggamuslims’ Weblog
Creeping Sharia
Now that Barack Obama has been reelected, we can expect more and more creeping sharia in the USA. Look, it creepeth already: Creep Creep creep Creeeep
Somatotypology, Craniometry and other detritus
KakNgah came home the other day asking about ectomorphic body types. Do you know about this? I’d never heard of such a thing. Apparently her teacher took some time out of class to tell the students about the Three Body Types of Man, ectomorphic (tall and thin), endomorphic (short and chubby), and mesomorphic (the ideal […]