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Obituary:  Famous novelist Philip Roth, 85, known for his book Portnoy's Complaint, has died of congestive heart failure.


Author of more than 25 books, Roth was a fierce satirist and uncompromising realist, confronting readers in a bold, direct style that scorned false sentiment or hopes for heavenly reward. He was an atheist who swore allegiance to earthly imagination, whether devising pornographic functions for raw liver or indulging romantic fantasies about Anne Frank. In "The Plot Against America," published in 2004, he placed his own family under the anti-Semitic reign of President Charles Lindbergh. In 2010, in "Nemesis," he subjected his native New Jersey to a polio epidemic.

He never received a Nobel Prize, but he won numerous other awards.

Roth was once married to actress Claire Bloom, who didn't have a lot good to say about him although she was still in love with him despite his numerous flaws.
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Jordan Peterson's crackpot ideas about sex are little more than Reaganomics for rapists.

Incels are losers by definition.  Women don't owe men jack shit.
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