Behind the Bastards

There's actually a lot of what I was thinking throughout this episode had to do with an interview on a recent episode with Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat, who was harassed and doxed for weeks and like an entire summer by Rush Limbaugh back in the day and then went on to be harassed and doxed by Jordan Peterson fans just a couple of years ago.

She wrote this book called The Sexual Politics of Meat.

In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson wrote that iron collars were among the worst parts of the cruel, hideous system of slavery.

The work he did on the run would later make up his only published book Notes on the State of Virginia

And if you are a poly size student, you just shut it a little bit. Yes, this son of a bitch in college. Yeah

Historian Dagmar Herzog, who wrote that book Sex after Fascism, that again, if you're going to read one book on sex and Nazism, that's the one, describes how absolutely widespread this thinking is among postwar leftists.

It would be wrong to hold the view that all of what happened in Auschwitz was typically German. It was typical for a society that suppresses sexuality.

Brutality and the lust for destruction become substitutes for bodily pleasure.

In the fascist rebellion, the energies of inhibited sexuality formed into genocide.

Sex after Fascism, which is an amazing book, very well worth reading, Dagmar Herzog writes, other grounds for divorce could be found in failure to engage in sexual intercourse and thereby fulfill one's marital duties, in the use of contraception, and in childlessness.

Fabricant cites this infuriating story in his book, Junk Science.

Quote, the Connecticut Supreme Court adopted the eyeball test and state v. Mark Reed, a rape conviction involving the use of hair microscopy, a technique that matches two hairs together through visual observation of the interior characteristics of human hair.

Hair matching evidence was admissible, not because it had been scientifically validated, but because jurors were free to make their own determinations as to the weight they would accord the expert's testimony in light of the photograph and their own powers of observation and comparison.

Ten years later, DNA proved that the jurors' powers of observation had led to Mark Reed's wrongful conviction.

He was innocent. The negroid hair, a racist anachronism still used in forensics today matched to Reed was in fact the pubic hair of his accuser, the white woman who had identified Reed a black man as her rapist.

In the book Junk Science, Innocence Project lawyer Chris Fabricant writes, to the FBI Mayfield looked good for it.

book junk science to truly gain acceptance by his colleagues as a forensic scientist and recognition as an expert.

One of my sources for these episodes is General Lee, a biography by Fitzhugh Lee.

His nephew, Fitzhugh Lee, wrote a biography, *General Lee*. It's a hagiography, it's a bit of a whitewash. It's not bad, but it's definitely pro-Lee.

I'm going to quote now from Kevin Cruz's book One Nation Under God, how corporate America invented Christian America, quote, In February 1948, journalist Kerry McWilliams wrote an acidic cover story on it for the nation with Save Christianity and the Save Western Capitalism chants becoming almost indistinguishable.

A major battle for the minds of the clergy, particularly those of the Protestant persuasion, is now being waged in America, he began. For the most part, the battle lines are honestly drawn and represent a sharp clash in ideologies.

But now and then the reactionary side tries to fudge a bit by backing movements which mask their true character and real sponsors.

Such a movement is spiritual mobilization. McWilliams explained to his readers the scope of its operations, noting that it now had nine organizers working in high rent offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and had distributed hundreds of thousands of pamphlets by pro-business authors for free.

But no one knew who was funding the operation, McWilliams warned. There had only been vague statements from Fifield that non-ministers who have a common stake in the America and Christian traditions cannot contribute service and that it was only natural that they give substance instead.

I'm going to quote now from Kevin Cruz's book One Nation Under God, how corporate America invented Christian America, quote, In February 1948, journalist Kerry McWilliams wrote an acidic cover story on it for the nation with Save Christianity and the Save Western Capitalism chants becoming almost indistinguishable.

A major battle for the minds of the clergy, particularly those of the Protestant persuasion, is now being waged in America, he began. For the most part, the battle lines are honestly drawn and represent a sharp clash in ideologies.

To mark the 175th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, they proposed for the week surrounding the Fourth of July a massive series of events devoted to the theme of freedom under God.

These words are the stones upon which man built history's greatest work, the United States of America. Remember them well.

These sermons were amplified by a program broadcast that same evening over CBS's national radio network. Cecil B. DeMille worked with his old friend Fifield to plan the production, giving it a professional tone and attracting an impressive array of Hollywood stars.

its sales were surpassed only by Uncle Tom's cabin.

its sales were surpassed only by Uncle Tom's cabin.

Everybody should read True Believer because it gets into all of this, and it's a real short book, and the death of democracy.

Everybody should read True Believer because it gets into all of this and it's a real short book.

based on a sworn affidavit Bobby filed in Westchester County's New York Supreme Court on September 16th, 2011. He had been victimized by Mary for many years to the extent that physical abuse was involved.

He testified that early in his marriage to Mary, the two had a blazing argument over his continued friendship with his first wife, Emily, during which Mary hit me in the face with her fist. She was a trained boxer and I got a shiner.

Her engagement ring crushed my tear duct, causing permanent damage.

He testified that she asked him to lie to her family about the cause of his black eye.

He is a demon. He is a demon.

He is the most evil kind of man in the world.

Everything he does is evil and a fraud.

He's a philanderer, an adulterer, a sex addict.

Mary had always been a lonely person.

It was so different from Jack's death. There had been a coming together. Uncle Bobby had seen to that in a strange way. We'd felt even more like Kennedys than ever proud at what Jack had been determined that our time would come again. But once uncle Bobby died, there was just this sense of splitting apart.

After we did our bit, Ethel would get calls from everyone in town complaining about it. At first she used to say my kids were home asleep last night. I don't know what you're talking about. But one night she waited up and sure enough, she caught me, Bobby and David jumping out of one of the second floor windows of her home. She chased us all over the compound in the middle of the night in her nightgown and bare feet, finally losing us somewhere on the stretch of beach.

We'd shoot off firecrackers, deflate people's tires, stick potatoes in the exhaust pipes of cars, turn over trash cans, mess around with girls, all sorts of mischief.

One prank had the boys playing in busy Hyannis Port tourist traffic only to have one kid fall to the ground while another smacked the back of a car making a loud noise. Then they would all gather around their fallen chum and shout hysterical sentiments at the driver such as, you've just killed another Kennedy.

In many ways Lim was a father to me and he was the best friend I will ever have.

I released my debut novel.

It's a sci-fi fantasy magical realist memoir in the sense that you'll barely know that it's about my life because there's robots and spells and shit.

It's called The Climb.

There will be a free three hour sample coming out, probably out by the time this drops on the Small Beans feed, which is my own podcast network.

You can find that just by pointing your podcast app at Small Beans and looking for The Climb, or you can get the whole thing over at patreon.com slash smallbeans slash shop, where you can find the audio book version, which I imagine most people will want.

So if you've liked me on Cracked or even if you happen to have encountered any of my fiction before, I finally finished a novel that I've been working on since I was 14. It's an epic fantasy sci-fi memoir.

I'll just describe it as like Karlin Ellison meets Vonnegut meets Douglas Adams.

Robert Brockway called it hilarious heartbreaking shit like that.

Next from Niall Ferguson's Kissinger.

We're a group of people who have completely lost confidence in the ability of the White House to conduct our foreign policy.

And we have come to tell you so.

We are no longer at your disposal as personal advisors.

for these men publicly breaking with Kissinger with journalists briefed in advance about the breach was a form of self-exculpation, not to say an insurance policy.

Next from Niall Ferguson's Kissinger.

Ferguson goes on to note that these guys were kind of full of shit.

They are all Washington insiders.

They have Schelling advised LBJ to massively escalate violence throughout the war in Vietnam.

Ferguson continues, and this is his explanation of what they were really doing.

There's books like All Boys Aren't Blue by writer George M. Johnson, whose book led one white school board member to call the police on her own district's librarian for keeping it in stock.

All Boys Aren't Blue by writer George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren't Blue

All Boys Aren't Blue and and other sex ed books.

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Strongly influenced by a book written by someone named Joshua Harris. It was called I Kissed Dating Goodbye.

I think dating will probably encourage you to have sex before marriage, which is of course bad.

Strongly influenced by a book written by someone named Joshua Harris. It was called I Kissed Dating Goodbye.

I think dating will probably encourage you to have sex before marriage, which is of course bad.

Bob Wilson wrote a bit about this in the late 70s in a book he put out called Cosmic Trigger. It's actually a series of books.

The recruits began to raise their eyebrows, badgering Knig with questions about exactly who it was that they were serving.

And when Knig failed to produce these names, many began to grow wary.

Knig approached Weishaupt on a number of occasions, and he grew even more discouraged when Weishaupt cadoged his questions.

To Knig's horror, Weishaupt admitted that the Supreme Superiors, the ancient texts behind the topmost level of the Illuminati pyramid, were entirely made up.

Most damning of the indictments were the set of instructions drawn up by Weishaupten and addressed to the ostensibly active Illuminati members in Silesia.

...and working with EFF it was impossible to miss...Was there a degree to which I guess were you surprised by anything that happened last summer or did it just kind of comprehensively feel like everything's slotting into place that I knew was heading in this direction because yeah you're right everything was kind of presaged years before...I'm wondering if there was anything that kind of surprised you or was it all just sort of what you'd been braced for?

Yeah I don't feel like there were any kind of surveillance surprises...this expansion of surveillance has been on my mind for a long time I've been writing about it at least since "Little Brother" so 2006 I wrote that novel and I've had my finger in that for all that time...

The guy who inspired "Silence the Lambs" the TV show "Mindhunter" was based on him in his book.

It's a terrible book.

It's incredible the lack of self-awareness he has.

It's a terrible book. Yeah, when I heard that Fincher was adapting I was like wow, good luck...but it's incredible the lack of self-awareness he has...this guy is so sexist and so bad every time he introduces a woman it starts by from the legs up like he's describing her...and at the very end of the book he reveals that his wife leaves him and he kind of writes as if this is a huge Surprise, and you're like, yeah, yeah, he's calling this from chapter one and he has a best buddy...There's like a real-life version of him and halfway through the book his wife Hires an assassin to come in and kill him and the guy just narrowly avoids it and and the guy writing the book is Like what an evil woman like oh my poor friend and you're like well hang on a minute...What did your what was your friend like? Yeah, his wife was what was going on?

He wrote The Blind Side which is another book that ...

The macro narrative is he's talking about the growth, the explosive growth and the importance of the left tackle in football... The micro story... is the tale of a guy named Michael Oher who was placed in foster care at age seven... He is someone who, like, shows an aptitude for football.

I didn't know that he wrote The Blind Side.