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Grayson Quay

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  • Anti-Christian Blasphemy Isn’t Edgy or Brave

    Anti-Christian Blasphemy Isn’t Edgy or Brave0

    In late December, an obscure Brazilian far-right group firebombed the Rio de Janeiro office of the production company behind a comedic Netflix “Christmas special” that portrayed Jesus as gay. A security guard quickly extinguished the blaze, and no one was hurt. Porta dos Fundos, the comedy group behind the film, immediately began casting themselves as

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  • Are Human Rights Real?

    Are Human Rights Real?0

    “Rights! Boy, everyone in this country’s always running around yammering about their [expletive] rights. ‘I have a right,’ ‘You have no right’… Folks, I hate to spoil your fun, but there’s no such thing as rights. Ok? They’re imaginary. We made them up,” comedian George Carlin said in a 2008 stand-up special. According to Carlin, who

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  • It’s Time to Stop Hating on ‘Mary, Did You Know?’

    It’s Time to Stop Hating on ‘Mary, Did You Know?’2

    There are plenty of candidates for the worst Christmas song. “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” comes off as the humanitarian equivalent of an “Arms of the Angels” ASPCA ad; “Here Comes Santa Claus” seems to be proselytizing for some kind of strange, syncretistic Christmas religion; and “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” is enough to

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  • Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters

    Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters0

    There’s a scene in The Big Lebowski in which The Dude bitterly objects that the pornographer Jackie Treehorn, viewed by the local sheriff as an upstanding citizen who “draws a lot of water” in Malibu, “treats objects like women, man.” Lazy, inarticulate stoner though The Dude may be, even he understands that porn is a shady business and that

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