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Beyond Highbrow
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/
Independent Left journalist in California. Trustafarian in a shackteau, slumming it up in the barrio. Revolutionary, patriotic Leftist, Christian, liberation theology, replacement theology.
Notorious provocateur and iconoclast, smashes all party lines.
Presently channeling Andy Kaufman, Tony Clifton, Lenny Bruce, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Kinky Friedman, Hunter S. Thompson and Wally Gator. Shoot first.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 5041 )
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Tokyo Sex Pistols!
The Tokyo Sex Pistols doing God Save the Queen, Bloody Mind and Bodies.Hey everybody give it up for Johnny Lotten and the Tokyo Sex Pistors!The comments are... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Disaster Capitalism
I will never understand people who love capitalism. This is capitalism in the modern era. Heck, capitalism has probably always operated like this. What do the... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
TAmmy Wynette, “Stand by Your Man”
God I love this song. When it first came out in 1968, the feminists went crazy, saying it was an anti-feminist song that encouraged women to stay with abusive... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Slovene Language
From here.A look at how difficult the Slovene language for an English speaker to learn. Slovene is a hard language, but probably a few other Slavic languages ar... Read more
Posted on 29 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Serbo-Croatian Language
From here.A look at the Serbo-Croatian language to see how hard it is to learn fro an English speaker. Serbo-Croatian is legendary for its difficulty. Read more
Posted on 29 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Polish Language
From here.A look at Polish to see how difficult it is for an English speaker to learn. Polish is probably the hardest I-E European language of all. Its only... Read more
Posted on 29 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Albanian Language
From here.A look at the Albanian language from the viewpoint of how hard it is to learn for an English speaker. Albanian is an ancient Indo-European language an... Read more
Posted on 29 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Armenian Language
From here.A look at the Armenian language focusing on how hard it is to learn for an English speaker.An obscure branch of Indo-European, Armenian, is very hard... Read more
Posted on 29 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Faroese Language
From here.A look at the Faroese language focusing on how hard it is to learn for an English speaker. Faroese is spoken on the Faroe Islands, and it is still... Read more
Posted on 29 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Bigfoot News August 29, 2013
Position on the Rick Dyer case. My position is that the Tent Video and the screenshot from the Shooting Bigfoot movie very definitely show real Bigfoots. Read more
Posted on 29 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Cool Word of the Day
Recrudescence – it means something like there was once this bad thing around, and it went away, and now here it is coming back again, thanks a lot! Or the retur... Read more
Posted on 28 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Usa! Usa! Usa!
Idiot releases Bald eagle into chapel at Oral Roberts University. Nation’s symbol flies around a bit, gets confused probably trying to fly outside to get out... Read more
Posted on 28 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Eskimo Languages
The Eskimo languages are well known for being some of the mostly convolutedly difficult languages on Earth. We take a look at two Eskimo languages for a... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Hawaiian and Maori Languages
The Polynesian languages are generally thought to be pretty easy to learn compared to other world languages. There is some truth to this, but Maori is probably... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Vietnamese and Khmer Languages
Vietnamese and Khmer, two tonal languages of SE Asia, are quite hard for an English speaker to learn for a variety of reasons. We take a look at those two... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Hungarian Language
A look at Hungarian from the view of how hard it is to learn for an English speaker. Hungarian is legendary for being a hard language to learn. Read more
Posted on 27 August 2013 LANGUAGES -
A Look at the Finnish and Estonian Languages
A look at two Finno-Ugric languages, Finnish and Estonian, from the point of view of how hard they are for an English speaker to learn. Finnish is legendary... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2013 LANGUAGES -
A Look at the Turkish Language
from the point of view of an English speaker trying to learn the language. Turkish is not a difficult langauge to learn, but it is not exactly simple either, an... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Look at the Quechua and Aymara Languages
A look at two major South American Indian languages, Quechua and Aymara with a view towards how difficult they are to learn for an English speaker. Read more
Posted on 27 August 2013 LANGUAGES -
A Look at Algonquian Languages
From here.A look at the Algonquian languages in terms of the difficulty they present for the English speaking language learner. Algonquian languages are... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY
