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Essays by James May

The Best Movies You Never Saw

Little known Hollywood gems


Dear Diary • An Idiot's Blog

A Compendium of My Most Clever and Treasured Thoughts


"Fuck You Too" • or, A Visit to the Minneapolis YWCA's Website

The perceptual trap of just hate speech and the bigotry of the oppressed • July 12, 2011


An Anatomy of Hate • Hate Speech in the Mainstream • Part 1 • The New Jim Crow

How America's Black Intelligentsia Are Institutionalizing Their Own Brand of Racism • July 7, 2011


An Anatomy of Hate • Hate Speech in the Mainstream • Part 2 • Dr. Boyce Watkins • Syracuse University

How America's Black Intelligentsia Are Institutionalizing Their Own Brand of Racism • July 7, 2011


LogoThe Age of Internet • And the lure of a fresh horse

Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence and the downfall of Anthony Weiner • June 23, 2011


Surprise! • Racism Breaks Out Among the African American Intelligentsia Over Cornel West's Criticism of President Obama

Hi jinx ensue along with the ongoing project of building a monument to Orwell's "doublethink" • May 19, 2011


Huffington Post Poll Reveals 26% of Americans Are Morons With 20% Undecided

Dove beauty products hates black people • May 24, 2011


IndiaIndia

A photo essay with no text


The 12th Annual White Privilege Conference

Beware of Nazis in pig-tails allergic to scented products bearing flowers and wheel chair access • May 7, 2011


Egypt After the 2011 Revolution: The Muslim Brotherhood

Why they cannot succeed • Feb.16, 2011


The Huffington Post and "White America's Shame"

How all white Americans can be either racist or to blame for it • April 29, 2011


The Egyptian Uprising of 2011 and False Narratives

Why facts mean so little • April 9, 2011 • Updated May 23, 2011


Sayd Qutb: Islam Seen In Silhouette Against the West

Why the wishful thinking called religion is best kept at home • Some thoughts about Sayd Qutb and Islam • April 26, 2011


Race and Political Correctness In America: Random Thoughts On Beatings, Obama and Websites • Updated

How the idea of what isn't is, and what is isn't, thrives in our culture • April 24, 2011


President Obama's Debt Speech, George Washington University • April 13, 2011

The Straw Man argued, "If I only had a brain."


Jeremiah Wright and the Perceptual Trap: An Argument Against Reverse Racism

A tough love essay: Is there a double standard for black Americans when it comes to racism?


Getting High and Other Eruptions: Minneapolis to New York, 1986-87

A personal memoir about drugs and volcanos • A film treatment soon to be a screenplay


Pines In the Dusk

A short story of weird horror fiction set at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the tradition of Robert E. Howard


Robert FrankRobert Frank's "The American's"

A Dawning of Self Loathing and Political Correctness • Dec., 2010


The Lights In Europe and America

The Danger of Kindness, Islam and Immigration • April, 2011


Palestinian Arabs - Talking Points: The Law of Failure

What Norman Finkelstein Doesn't Accept or Understand


The 2011 Uprising In Egypt

Thoughts Of Cause and Effect • Feb.13, 2011


The Story Behind My Photos: The 2011 Uprising In Cairo, Egypt • Jan.28-Feb.13

Click Here for my documentary photos of the event


Thinking Outside the Box: The Real Enemies of the Palestinian Arabs

Themselves and Their Allies and the No-State Solution


Science Fiction Literature and Fine Art Photography: A Study In Contrasts

How Two Genres With Similar Beginnings Have Come To Decidedly Different Places


Nostalgie de la Boue

How to be a racist and not know it


The 2010 Arizona Immigration Law: SB 1070

On gerrymandering, racism and common sense


Fine Art Photography: Subversion and Circumvention

The Hijacking and Subsequent Nadir of Fine Art Photography


Collateral Damage Iraq: The Cold Equations

A short essay about civilian casualties in recent history


Islamic Terrorism and Political Correctness

How the West may be hamstringing itself against terrorism


Islamic Terrorism: A Foreshadow of Doom

Are Islamic terrorists more dangerous to the West or Islam?


The Morality of War, Conquest and Slavery

Is success itself simply immoral?


Palestinians and the Perceptual Trap

An essay about Palestinian strategy failures in regard to Israel


Collateral Damage: Gaza Strip

The December 2008 Israeli attack against Gaza


Palestine: The No-State Solution?

Is a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict attainable?


Graduation and Travel: Minneapolis to South America - 1980-83

The true story of my stupid life • Well okay, it's for a screenplay but who's counting?


Dealing and Road Trips: South America, 1984-85

More adventures in my stupid life • A film treatment


Science Fiction & Fantasy: Film and Literature

An informal comparison of their history and development


thumbnail of Delonas NY Post cartoonNew York Post "Chimpanzee" Uproar

How hyprocrisy and intelligence go hand in hand


Bill Moyers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Black Lists: The Rest of the Story

The pulpit in Plato's Cave


The 21st Century Disaster That Is American Politics

A lack of resolve, political correctness and a desire for votes is casting the future of America into a 3rd World nightmare





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