Jim Goad

1,143 words / 8:44 The news reports agree: Last Wednesday’s self-inflicted accidental gunshot death of a 17-year-old Virginia rapper was a tragic event. MSN reprints an article from something called Hip Hop Vibe: Virginia’s drill rap scene was shaken by the tragic news of 17-year-old rapper Rylo Huncho. He wound up fatally shooting himself in […]

1,860 words The World’s Greatest Boxer Is a White Man Apologies, oh trusted and cherished readers, because this article is a trifle late. I also beg you to forgive me for the fact that I’m straying from my usual path of chronicling all the week’s bad news. The reason this feature is late is because […]

One would think that news the FBI has arrested an active US Marine for threatening to go on a shooting rampage against US citizens would be a major news story. But one would think wrong. As is so ofte

1,370 words / 9:35 One would think that news the FBI has arrested an active US Marine for threatening to go on a shooting rampage against US citizens would be a major news story. But one would think wrong. As is so often the case, we have ourselves an inconvenient perpetrator and an unprotected target […]

1,370 words / 9:35 One would think that news the FBI has arrested an active US Marine for threatening to go on a shooting rampage against US citizens would be a major news story. But one would think wrong. As is so often the case, we have ourselves an inconvenient perpetrator and an unprotected target […]

2,016 words Scotland’s New Leader: White As of late March, after the appointment of the Zambia-born Vaughan Gething as the First Minster of Wales, the only country in the British Isles with a white leader — albeit a female one — was Northern Ireland. In April, a white male named Simon Harris replaced the brown-and-gay […]