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Peg Tittle
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Dec 01 2023
“Factory workers guaranteed …”
“Factory workers guaranteed eight-hour work day while teething.” from The Onion’s Our Dumb Century (1907)
Nov 30 2023
great line from David Brin’s Earth
“Honestly … I just couldn’t be interested in a man so egotistical he insists, in a world of ten billion people, that his genes are desperately needed.” (p120) (and so much else … a novel worth reading, for sure.)
Nov 25 2023
Porn for Women
Check out her list of insightful observations: https://xtan.wordpress.com/2006/06/02/porn-for-women-a-false-notion/
Nov 25 2023
Jesus loves you … but
“Jesus loves you … but he’s the only one, you sanctimonious shit.” from Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists
Nov 21 2023
“If you can’t trust me with a choice …”
“If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?” brilliant bumper sticker from The Onion
Nov 15 2023
Another Tim Dorsey novel …
Coconut Cowboy – as always, several good bits … about a meeting of an anarchist group (p205-6): “What would the official minutes look like? … ‘Meeting not called to order …’ ‘Minutes from previous meeting shredded …’ ‘Agenda rejected’ …’ ‘All officers impeached’ ‘Group disbanded’ …” about obsessive compulsive disorder (p206): “I prefer the term …
Nov 10 2023
Great stuff from Stoltenberg
…[T] male-dominated gay liberation movement never really grasped how homophobia is rooted in the woman hating that is a fixture of male supremacy. Quite simply, the male homosexual is stigmatized because he is perceived to participate in the degraded status of the female … … The system of male supremacy requires gender polarity—with real men …
Oct 30 2023
Among the things that don’t count …
[Bernadette Powell, a black woman from Ithaca, New York, is now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence … because in 1978 she shot and killed her ex-husband.] [T]he Tompkins county prosecutor … argued … that [she] had no reason to fear bodily harm from her ex-husband because although the man admittedly had committed many violent acts against …
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