Month: April 2023

By Selwyn Duke No, this isn't my last appearance because I've been booted, but because my friend Chuck is finally embarking upon a much-deserved retirement. It was an honor, though a bittersweet one, to be the very last guest in his long and storied media career. I'd been on Talkback for more than 15 years,…

By Selwyn Duke You may remember the name Rachel Dolezal. She’s the woman who resigned as an NAACP chapter head in 2015 after her parents revealed that she was not black as she claimed, but white. What you may not know is that far from chastened, Dolezal has doubled down, calling herself “unapologetically black.” In…

By Selwyn Duke We discussed the Tucker Carlson situation right after the story of his leaving of Fox broke. My appearance begins at 28:55. 

By Selwyn Duke A few decades ago we had Al Gore, who boasted about fighting Big Tobacco not 10 years after boasting about having grown mucho tobacco. Now we have the third-millennium version of smoking out of both sides of your mouth: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is reportedly “test marketing” a complete ban on…

By Selwyn Duke Fifty-five years ago already, Star Trek portrayed civilizations that worshiped über-powerful, artificially intelligent computers. In “The Return of the Archons” (1967), controlled and sometimes terrified people speak of the “will of Landru,” who is “everywhere” and stamps out individuality to absorb humans into a collective called “The Body.” In “The Apple” (1967), a planet’s…

By Selwyn Duke “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation,” goes a line apparently misattributed to Vladimir Lenin. While the quotation is more likely a paraphrase of Lenin by famed economist John Maynard Keynes, it also “seems like a pretty good description of what…

By Selwyn Duke My appearance begins at 52:20.  Note: If you want to fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab." Talkback-04-21-2023

By Selwyn Duke Well, at least we know Covid paranoia has passed. Where grown-ups once were aghast at the “coronavirus challenge” — a dare that had youngsters licking everyday items and which was called “disgusting” — now, licking away with the kids are the adults. Or, are they “adultescents”? This question can be asked with the revelation…

By Selwyn Duke We discussed how Washington state is enabling child sexual-distortion treatments (aka "gender-reassignment" treatments) without the parents' knowledge. My appearance begins at 29:56. 

By Selwyn Duke In our pronoun wars, a simple truth is generally missed: People don’t have pronouns. Languages do. Anyone not enjoying a Rip Van Winkle slumber for the last 20 years will know that the above alludes to the “personal pronoun” obsession of the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) activists. Yet pronoun-norm manipulation…