Author Archives: Rev. Dickie "Drive-By" Dixon

BREAKING: New Mississippi Flag Design Leaked

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Both houses of the Mississippi legislature yesterday voted to remove the Confederate battle jack from the state’s flag. Gov. Tate Reeves has said he will sign the bill. In anticipation of this move a team of artists and historians have spent the past week working on a new flag design. An anonymous source shared the proposed new flag with Lullaby

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Fun with headlines: the case of the dancing, backflipping, accidentally discharging FBI agent

Wanted: copy desk editor. No experience required. By now you’ve probably seen the story. An off-duty FBI agent was dancing – and I use that term in its loosest possible sense – at a club up in RiNo (that’s the River North district in Denver for you non-5280ers). He tried a backflip. He failed. His gun fell out. He tried

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Would there be high school walkouts today if Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a black High School?

Parkway Center City Middle College Philadelphia.

Is the right to protest itself a function of privilege? These kids raise good questions. Would there be massive high school walkouts across the country today if Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS was a predominately black inner-city school in Philly? In a neighborhood where there’s nothing special at all about gun violence?

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Roy Moore loses in Alabama: a quick look at some interesting numbers

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The Yellowhammer State is home to hundreds of thousands of the worst “Christians” on the face of the earth. Let’s look at some numbers from yesterday’s Alabama senatorial election. Republican Roy Moore received 650,436 votes. Democrat Doug Jones received 671,151. In last year’s presidential election, Donald Trump received 1,318,255 votes to Hillary Clinton’s 729,547. We expect higher turnouts in presidential years, and

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