The Spike
Icahnoclast: The SpikeRandom thoughts on the subjects that the press distorts, outright lies about or ignores entirely. All writing is satirized for your protection and possible amusement. Masks optional.
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Language Acquisition and the Literary Geniuses
As an icebreaker to start class each day in my high school ESL class, I would project from my laptop a melange of home web pages on a screen via overhead projector. One of those pages was the Literary Quote of the Day, and one day the quote...
Saint and the Fraud: Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali Deserves the Feminist Crown and Ilhan Omar Belongs on a Plane Back to Somalia
The fact that in Mahommedan law every woman must belong to a sole man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power...
Al Sharpton’s Unpaid Debts: Why Democrats’ 2028 Courtship Should Give Americans Pause
In 1987, I was living in New Milford, Connecticut. In late November—specifically around November 28—the New Milford Times ran a shocking front-page story about a 15-year-old Black teen named Tawana Brawley. She claimed she had been abducted...
The Californication of Colorado: Importing California’s Energy Folly and the Renewables Mirage
Colorado was once the West’s rugged alternative to California—mountains without the madness, abundant energy from coal, natural gas, and oil, affordable living, and a libertarian-leaning political culture that prized growth over green manda...
日本の聖パトリックデー
This is a Grok collaboration of a substack I originally published in March 2024.
Back in the fall of 2002, I stepped into a public high-school classroom for the first time in four decades to teach adult ESL three nights a week. It was equa...
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