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7 Jun 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
TRIGGER WARNING: This message is not suitable for children. You shouldn't be here. Go away. In this article, I'm going to tell you why it's time to be quiet, and listen. I'm going to show you how your vision has been blurred, how things that were...
3 Jun 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Lots of drivers can drive fast, but very few drivers can race." Richard Petty When I was a kid, my brother, my dad, and I went to all the NASCAR races. It was in the days when the only track that wasn't in the South was in Michigan. Maybe that...
31 May 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Die before you die; there is no chance after." C.S. Lewis "Hipness is death to the individual, and only the individual is truly hip." Pablo Smog Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai depicts a hitman from the street, a hip-hop zen warrior who raises...
28 May 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Apparently, the Queen of England has been in power for 70 years. To mark the occasion, a robot named Ai-Da just painted her portrait. Behold, the postmodern endgame: I'm not overly interested in critiquing the art; anyone who's ever been to an art...
25 May 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee." Jeremiah 1:5 "His name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb." Luke 2:21 "They that obs...
23 May 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES In October 2019, a convoy of 5 Michoacán State Police cars was ambushed by the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación in Aguililla, Michoacán. 13 cops were killed, and 9 were wounded. There were 20 survivors. A 21-year-old "jefa s...
23 May 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Living in Mexico for a little over a year and a half, I don't see Mexicans in these videos. I see Americans. I hear it, the Chicano accent. I see the Spanish names for the small businesses in the background. But these subcultures are quintessent...
20 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I wanted to write this when Eminem took a knee for the Superbowl halftime show earlier this year, but I didn't care enough. However, after reading some Mexican fake news about a 30-second diss track Eminem made for AMLO, the president of Mexico, I h...
19 May 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." 2 Peter 2:1 Je...
11 May 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Christianity is for the underdogs. It's for people who have the odds stacked against them. Christianity is actually for everybody, of course, but only the underdogs ever receive it. Being an underdog doesn't necessitate your participation in Chris...
