Jim Goad

Stop worrying about good and bad…and start thinking about true and false.

Unacceptably Fat

The results are in: Fat people overeat because our fat-fearing society “fat-shames” them, which then causes them to overeat. This doesn’t explain how they got fat in the first place, but let’s not get picky.

Santa Claus: Still White

Although Santa Claus doesn’t exist, I am nevertheless convinced that he is white. I take it as a matter of faith that he is as white as his beard and as white as the polar ice caps.

Seven Ideas You Can Never Discuss on Television

In 1972 comedian George Carlin famously delineated the “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” All seven words dealt with bodily parts or functions at a time when such things were simply not mentioned in polite company.

Work v. Sex

But working and creating are what raise us above mere animals. Work, not sex, is the main reason we ascended above the apes.

Better Dead Than On Meds

They say the Unabomber was crazy, but he made sense when he warned that mass-prescribed mood-altering pharmaceuticals are evil precisely because they force you to tolerate situations which you’d naturally find intolerable.

Torch Mobs For Tolerance

And my guts tell me that 100 years ago, you would have all been in white racist lynch mobs while I would have been the one crazy white guy in town trying to stop you.

Dangerously Sensitive

Hasan was a solitary worm burrowing deep inside a military-industrial apple that refused to stop him for fear of being deemed wormophobic.

How Cult Leaders Use Sex To Control Their Sects

From the voluntary castration of Heaven’s Gate to the Children of God’s eager encouragement of pedophilic incest, sex is used to demolish personal identity in favor of the hive mentality.