Category Archives: Society

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Polanski, This Will Be Interesting.

Does a ga zillion years make a dif­fe­rence?
From the Inde­pen­dent:
“But in March 1977, Polanski, then aged 44, made the fate­ful mis­take that hangs on him to this day. He had been com­mis­sio­ned by Vogue Hom­mes to take a series of pho­to­graphs of ado­les­cent girls: he wan­ted to show them, he says in Roman, as “sexy,

Mad As Hell Doctors Want the Breaks Applied

Nothing but the best rhe­to­ric will do. I see a Pre­si­dent and Con­gress unwi­lling to risk poli­ti­cal ire (or anger of those with ves­ted inte­rest in the health insu­rance and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­tries), and do what the right thing for this country by get­ting rid of the free mar­ket health insu­rance industry alto­gether. Giving that

Complicated

Offe­red by Bad Science, but appli­ca­ble to all sub­ject mat­ter, this little fashion sta­te­ment is per­fect for, crea­tio­nists, blog­gers who think they are jour­na­lists, par­ti­san pun­dits, acti­vist stu­dents, and those who com­plain that this shirt is offe­red in the color white for men, but only in the drea­ded pink for women.
You may purchase it here.

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Freedom Of Speech Compensates for Seldom Used the Freedom of Thought, and Other Expostulations

My Tues­day tank­ful of tid­bits and anno­yan­ces.
1. Thanks to an anony­mous tips­ter, who for some unk­nown rea­son was loo­king up wonderlandornot/images, I dis­co­ve­red my old Flickr account, tit­led won­der­lan­dor­not. The con­tents are mea­ger  —   a cou­ple of shots from Oahu in 2006. I can’t access the account, because it is old, hasn’t been uti­li­zed in