Politically Correct

Nick Russell on August 27th, 2011

If a U.S. Marine farts in the desert, can it be heard in the Halls of Montezuma, or on the shores of Tripoli? I sure hope not, because the natural act of passing gas has become a politically incorrect hot potato, so to speak. And don’t even ask me to visualize that comment! A few [...]

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Nick Russell on August 22nd, 2011

I got an e-mail yesterday evening that really got me steamed, so I’m going to vent here, and if it offends anybody, so be it. Every year we hold two RV rallies for the readers of our Gypsy Journal RV newspaper, and a man wrote to tell me that he and his wife, and his [...]

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Nick Russell on June 8th, 2011

I received word this week that Larry Link, owner of Stein’s ghost town in southern New Mexico, was murdered. News reports say that Link, 68, had gone to the ghost town to investigate a trespasser, and was found later, lying next to his vehicle. He had been shot twice. We met Larry years ago when [...]

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Nick Russell on March 20th, 2011

Schools across America are cracking down on bullies, with a zero tolerance policy toward any type of physical or verbal abuse between students. This comes in the wake of some terrible incidents reported in the news the last few years, in which students have committed suicide because they could not tolerate the bullying they have [...]

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Nick Russell on January 5th, 2011

Are you as sick to death of the politically correct bullcrap that has taken over every level of our society as I am? We have gotten so twisted and turned around in our never ending quest not to offend anybody, in any way that, frankly, it offends me. Now that’s double-speak for you, isn’t it? [...]

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Nick Russell on November 22nd, 2010

The news is full of reports of outrage by travelers who are being subjected to pat downs  by TSA personnel that many are calling intrusive, insensitive, and even obscene. Some of the things I am hearing are completely disgusting, including a 61 year old bladder cancer survivor who said the pat down he received was [...]

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Nick Russell on November 13th, 2010

I’m sorry for the title of this blog, but there’s no other way to say it. I’m pissed! Television station KSBW in Salinas, California reports that the pinheads that run Denair Middle School, in Stanislaus County, ordered a thirteen year old student to remove an American flag from his bicycle on Veterans Day. The news [...]

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Nick Russell on November 20th, 2009

Televangelist Pat Robertson hasn’t said much that I’ve been able to agree with in the past, but he has said a lot of things that make him look like a jackass. I see him kind of like a Bible thumping version of Rush Limbaugh. In the past, Robertson has claimed that feminism is not about [...]

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Nick Russell on September 3rd, 2009

These days it seems like we can’t debate any issue without being labeled radical by those who oppose it, and no idea can stand on its merits alone, because we have to label it a Democratic or Republican ploy, or a Liberal or Conservative cause. It doesn’t matter if something is good for the country [...]

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Nick Russell on August 25th, 2009

Bad Nick is the alter ego of Nick Russell, the relatively mild mannered publisher of the Gypsy Journal RV travel newspaper and the author of a half dozen or so travel books. Before that, he spent his career publishing small town newspapers, and loved stepping on the toes of the local politicians who got caught [...]

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