Freedom to Offend

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Super Double Top Secret Report Opened
A Satirical Romp Through Institutional Absurdity
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The Widening Gyre: Is Our Society Evolving or Regressing?
In spite of all the hype about mental health, physical health and us being a kinder, gentler society, are we crueler than 40 years ago?
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News of the World - HAMAS PUBLIC RELATIONS TEAM WINS MARKETING "ENMIES" FOR FOURTH YEAR IN A ROW.
Hamas managing partner Weal El-Victim said he is humbled but later admitted show organisers made him say that. El-Victim said he honestly felt like the…
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The Power of the Butterfly Breezes of Kindness: An Old Testament Letter from Exile and the Ash Heap
Not concerned if this makes me look weak, I am not weak.
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Not Quite A Pulitzer
Freedom to Offend was ranked the 51st funniest site out of 75,000 writers on Substack.
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News of the World - Putin Crazed Republicans Rush Stage To Wipe His Feet With Their Tears
Not totally true, but pretty close. -- He has a face like a hamster. See below for the button to the non-hit song, "Burn in Hell Hamster Face"
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I said I stood with Israel and my world crumbled: The Savage Machine, A Kafkaesque Nightmare of Betrayal and Institutional Cruelty, A World…
To the Jewish grandmother, to those who showed such kindness at the synagogue book launch.
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Joining Forces
You know how all those people on Instagram look nothing like their IG pics? With the pictures below I'm just as guilty. But my dog is a pretty accurate…
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She was a neurologist in Russia. She wanted to practice in Canada.
The first doctor she went to meet didn't show up for her meeting. But she was determined and never gave up.
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“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
Fourteen months into a professorial suspension because I called Hamas Nazis: Some reflections, some bald truth, a ton of depression, packs of wolves in…
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Dog Grief is Real. But like all grief in America, we must bury it quickly and move on.
When Dylan Thomas told us to rage against the dying of the light he spoke of his father, but the pain from losing a beloved pet is also brutal and rips…
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Riffing on Dylan Thomas*
* (Welsh poet who wrote “Do not go gently into that good night” about his feelings surrounding his dying father) This was hard to write.
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