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Peg Tittle
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Apr 14 2025
a couple good John Varley bits
“Humans are a time-binding species, existing, in the eternal now. The future flows through them and becomes the past, but it is always the present that counts.” from “Overdrawn on the Memory Bank” I’ve been thinking that I am UNlike my dog in this respect, in that SHE lives only in the present b/c she …
Mar 29 2025
The APA, Gender, and Sex – great post
The American Psychological Association – Out of Touch and Deep in the Gender Weeds.
Mar 14 2025
some nice bits from James Tiptree, Jr.
“Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful, and they run the world. …” … “Men and women aren’t different species, Ruth. Women do everything men do.” “Do they?” .. She mutters something that could be “My Lai” and looks away. “All the endless wars …” Her …
Mar 10 2025
Yeah … because global warming isn’t a real thing
“Many government webpages that have the word “climate” in them have been removed in recent days, particularly at EPA, where on Jan. 27, all information about climate change was removed from its homepage and other prominent areas of its website, burying it deep in sections that are harder to find.” Cuts to U.S. Weather and …
Feb 26 2025
some delightful David Brin
“Is there a moral or logical justification for a creator to weild capricious power of life and death over his creations?” from “Stones of Significance” * “Death postponed. Metastasized cells got organized.” “Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.” (both from Insistence of Vision)
Feb 23 2025
American Tragedy — Indeed.
So I watched American Tragedy (purporting to explain the American tragedy of school shooting) last night—actually I fast-forwarded through a lot because it was so superficial and, thus, boring, ignoring the elephants in the room. As soon as a boy enters puberty, his body goes into testosterone overload and almost overnight, he sees females as …
Feb 23 2025
Use protection. Use contraception. A HUGE difference.
When we talk to/about men and condoms, we say ‘Use protection’, but when we talk to/about women about various options, we say ‘Use contraception’. The difference is NOT insignificant. In the second case, we’re talking about preventing conception, about not becoming pregnant, about not becoming a parent. In the first case, we’re talking about protection …
Feb 22 2025
In an effort to help reduce the trade imbalance (aka “deficit”)
In an effort to help reduce the trade imbalance (aka “deficit”), Canadians are starting to buy a lot of guns from the U.S. (Jass Richards)
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