We welcome back the sun and say goodbye to some negative energy Being an old pagan bunch with roots all over the northern world, our crew here at the Woodshed Autonomous Zone has a bonfire every winter solstice. We do this to call the sunlight back just as our […]
Race Relations
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Top Black Racists of 2020: The WAZ Awards Introduction Without television, radio, cell phone, newspaper (except obituaries and the funnies three days a week), or social media, by the time what they call news in the Lower 48 percolates through more than twenty degrees of latitude to some of us […]
Black Racists of 2020 The WAZ Awards Winner number one is Monica Cannon-Grant, a black ‘community activist,’ organizer in political campaigns for Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Joseph Kennedy III, and other famous names in Massachusetts politics. Our WAZ researcher who drew the short straw for Monica was Sven Johansson. Occupation: Commercial […]
Black Racists of 2020 The WAZ Awards Winner Number 2. Black Lives Matter *Note to all four people who might stumble across this page and start to read it. The WAZ committee, at the risk of being called condescending old white men, has voted to endorse a few simple, modest, […]
Black Racists of 2020 The WAZ Awards “It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child.” Steve Martin, from ‘The Jerk’ 1979. Our man NuGene caught the brass ring for researching Black Lives Matter ‘activist’ Shaun King to see if he was genuine, dyed in the […]
Black Racists of 2020 The WAZ Awards Our esteemed rainforest committee chairman Roy Sequoia was the lucky draw for this week’s wonderful WAZ awardee, Oprah Winfrey. Occupation: Roy’s a semi-retired, diesel mechanic, specializing in engines and hydraulics for the small boat commerical fisheries. He’s extremely arthritic and has a habit […]
Black Racists of 2020 The WAZ Awards WAZ winner number five is a young black man named Random. Random’s typically unemployed, homeless, or ‘an aspiring rapper’. His entitlement is like ancient Rome’s ruling class had where they could punch people on the street, laugh about it, pay a small fine, […]
[Editor’s note: Chairman Roy drew this guy originally but Ira asked him if they could switch. Roy was okay with that.] Winner number six is Boston University professor Ibram Kendi, author of, ‘How to be an Antiracist.’ It’s a good title except for that misplaced prefix Anti. Average student expenses […]
Black Racists of 2020 Winner Number 7. Robin DiAngelo Our WAZ researcher for this week is Cosmo Fury. Born with a contact lens in his third eye Cosmo, even as a kid was what school teachers, if they were kind, called an alternative thinker. These days he grows some of […]
Black Racists of 2020 The WAZ Awards Winner number eight is Nikole Hannah Jones, a wealthy, highly educated, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has made a lucrative career speaking and writing about black victimhood and white oppression. Our narrator is Al Purdy. Al’s a retired firefighter/EMT, who looks exactly like […]
Winner Number 9 Colorism Tonight’s speaker is Tommy O’Brien: a wiry 60ish man who walks the mountains alone, year round, far from trails, sometimes chest deep in snow, sometimes choosing routes that, if he slipped, no one here would ever know what became of Tommy. He likes to laugh and […]
San Diego: motto America’s Finest City San Diego Unified School District is the second largest school district in California . Jake Paresky was our WAZ researcher for number ten. Occupation: High school biology teacher. Qualifications: Began his career in Southern California in a school where half the kids started his […]