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~ the literary equivalent of sex with a clown ~

21 Jun
Columns

Don’t try to extinguish Girls on Fire

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June 21, 2022
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I saw a news story today about Girls on Fire. Someone should put them out, was my first thought. Risking my sanity by reading beyond the headline, I learned the story was about a marked increase in th...
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26 May
Columns

Guns don’t kill people. Arseholes kill people

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May 26, 2022
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Don’t get me wrong. You won’t catch me hugging any bunnies, but that’s largely because I’m afraid of them. It’s not funny. Leporiphobia is a real thing. I don’t come around to your house and laugh at ...
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Guns don’t kill people. Arseholes kill people.

Posted by author-avatar Ben Trovato
October 11, 2015
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Don't get me wrong. You won't catch me hugging any bunnies, but that's largely because I'm afraid of them. It's not funny. Leporiphobia is a real thing. I don't come around to your house and laugh at ...
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An open letter to Michaela ‘Sexy Hunter’ Fialova  

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March 15, 2015
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Dear Michaela, When I first saw your picture I mistook you for just another of those very attractive, deeply sensitive women in their twenties who go around not killing things for fun. We don't need ...
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Letters

An Open Letter to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa

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March 19, 2013
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Dear Sir or Madam, Forgive me for I know not whether you are a sir or a madam. For all I know, you are both. If you are indeed a hermaphrodite or even a transsexual who dreams of one day undergoing g...
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12 Mar
Columns

Let’s not forget Henke, so-called father of Oscar Pistorius

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January 7, 2024
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We hear a lot about Oscar Pistorius living with his rich uncle Arnold while on parole, but nobody talks about his father, Henke. Here's a letter I wrote to the murderer's dear old dad in 2013. .......
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Columns

Shootin’ From The Hip With Dead-Eye Dickhead

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February 24, 2013
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If your husband or boyfriend goes shopping and comes home with, say, a slow cooker, you stand a chance of getting supper. If, on the other hand, he comes home with a gun, you stand a chance of getting...
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