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    What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That’s 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every...
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It’s one thing to deconstruct and analyze and condemn the institutions of patriarchy and their flaws. It’s another one to feel their bruises on your skin, and their grasping hands pulling your hair and covering your mouth as you scream. Alice Minium Women quickly learn...
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“The important thing is the presidency,” Nixon continued. “If need be, save the presidency from the President.” Bob Woodward, The Final Days It’s funny what makes you think. And what it makes you think about. I was driving home in the rainy dark, Washington State...
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No nation’s security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors “The Chance for Peace” (16 April 1953) By now, only the truly witless still believe that...
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He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way...
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Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you. C. Kennedy, Ómorphi It’s a sad commentary on a 63 year (so far) life that I can finally report that I have no abusers in my life. It’s the first time I can recall being able...
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What Are Little Boys Made of? What are little boys made of? Snips and snails, And puppy-dogs’ tails; That’s what little boys are made of. What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, And all that’s nice; That’s what little girls are made of....
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They set a low bar for Donald Trump, and he banged his head on it. Austan Goolsbee By now, Mr. Trump, you have been hearing that you are the worst president in U.S. history from an abundance of people. You’ve heard it from ordinary people....
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So it’s all rolled around again — quicker now as I’ve aged. Earlier, too, but that’s not my fault. Blame capitalism. I saw Christmas stuff out before Thanksgiving hadn’t even happened yet. I was not alone in my irritation — people around me nodded in...
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