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Wall Street Journal Guest Column

Losing My Nonreligion, (Archive) by Jerry A. Coyne

30 March 2025

Coyne opines about the reason he left the Freedom from Religion Foundation.  

And here is my comment which the good editors of the Wall Street Journal rejected.  

The truth is, most Americans, certainly almost everyone on the left, and if the WSJ is anything to go by, a good number purportedly on the right, have lost all common sense.  Sure, Trump won.  But these people are not going anywhere.  Here I mean not only the gender confused, but all of those who support and enable their genuine insanity.  And of course, as Coyne infers, they will not be swayed because this is their religion.

It's ironic that Coyne left the Freedom from Religion Foundation because of the FFRF's in-house religion.  But these are the times in which we live.  He was a heretic, so he had to be excommunicated.  No, there can be no dissension from the dogma at the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

And what's more, I do not even believe that most of these guys are gender confused.  Rather, I think this is an advanced form of narcissism and a narcissistic power play supported by their large cohort of flying monkeys.  I have written more about this here.

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On Donald McNeil and The New York Times

This is a long read:  Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four.  I really did not expect to make it all the way through myself.  But as someone who is deeply suspicious of The New York Times, I just could not stop.  I confess to an unworthy sense of satisfaction, even schadenfreude, as I read this.

I can't decide what is more sad.  The fact that Donald McNeil does not understand the completely broken culture of The New York Times, a place he worked for over forty years.  Or his tepid and timid response to it.  He should have fought, quicker and harder.  We, the sane, must fight this lunacy.  If we don't, we become part of it, and consumed by it.  Even now, McNeil describes the situation (archive) as a series of misunderstandings and blunders.

But it's so much worse than that.  McNeil seems to be under the impression that what he actually said and did in Peru in 2019 matters.  I guess that is why he goes into such great detail in Part Four.  At the end of which, he says:  I do not see why their [the students] complaints should have ended my career at the Times two years later.  But they did.

Well if that is his conclusion, he deserves what he got.  Because it was not the students' complaints that did him in.  They were children.  Rather, it was his respected colleagues, for whom virtue signaling outweighs integrity.

In fact, this entire extended episode demonstrates the complete lack of institutional integrity at The New York Times.  If the Times' leadership will treat one of their own loyalists so shabbily, is it any surprise they treat news and opinion with such low integrity as well?

Bari Weiss understands this.  Donald McNeil?  He's not so clever.

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What Happened to my Newspaper?

I woke up this morning, put the coffee on, and like every morning for the last 20 years, went outside to get the newspaper.  Alas, there was no paper to be found.  Of course it might have something to do with the unpaid renewal bill still sitting here on my desk.  For $183.  For another year of the Raleigh News & Observer.  Let me look at it again; yes, my subscription expired a week ago.  No doubt my carrier was hoping I’d get around to paying it and gave me a week’s grace.

But I am not going to pay it.  In fact, I decided not to renew it months ago.  Now, don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the ritual of sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and the paper.  Tangible news.  Well tangible newsprint anyway.  It’s a comfortable ritual and it used to be the very first thing I did in the morning.  But in recent years, its become the second.  These days, the first thing I do is, well, read the news…on the internet.  Okay I confess, email first, then news.

Sure, reading news articles on the internet takes a little getting used to.  But just like the printed newspaper, most articles are not very long.  I used to print out long articles from the internet and read them on paper.  And, I still do that occasionally – a recent New York Times Magazine cover story comes to mind.  But over time, I have come to read longer and longer articles online.

Now, we all know newspapers are in trouble.  Their problems are real:  An outdated business model, diminished advertising, and falling subscriber base.  But, I have long resented paying for the newspaper.  For me, it is a quality issue.  They just do not do a very good job.  Simple as that.  And objective journalism is an oxymoron.  The only people in the world who do not recognize this fact seem to be the so-called journalists themselves.  But I paid anyway.  I wanted to know what the heck was going on, and regardless of what I thought about their competence or fairness, they were able to inform me who won the election yesterday.

But I no longer need them for that.  Consequently, I no longer feel compelled to give money to the undeserving.

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Bailout Journal: Newspaper Edition

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