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A Brief History of Animals (and Inanimate Objects) Going to Court
The Ingenuity and Beauty of Creative Parchment Repair in Medieval Books
Subway Break Dancers, Clad in Armor, Go Medieval at the Met Museum
Beyond The McRib
The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar
Why Does It Look Like This National Park Building in Alaska Is Sprouting Hair? (Arachnids. There are pictures.)
Japan aims to open door wider to blue-collar workers
Superheroes and villains: Who's more violent might surprise you
How much does a cable box really cost? The industry would prefer you don't ask
Congress Has No Clue What Americans Want (But do they really care?)
As Beirut’s Trash Crisis Drags on, Children Recycle to Survive
Column: This is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously
1 in 5 childhood scald burns caused by instant soup and ramen, research shows
For Chimps, Human Touch Can Hurt
See how your city’s weather will be different in just one generation.
Future Shock in the Countryside
When Boys Can't Be Boys
‘You descend into hell by coming here’: how Texas shut the door on refugees
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Date: 2018-11-03 10:25 am (UTC)The "Boys" article is good. I've actually interrupted young white teenage boys from calling young blacks "boy" because of the connotation of it. (I used to tutor teenage boys in a small town in a very rural county.)
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Date: 2018-11-03 10:04 pm (UTC)and I still think it's insulting to call grown women of any race "girls".
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Date: 2018-11-03 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-11-04 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-03 01:57 pm (UTC)I've read Atlas Shrugged several times. Except for the preachy spots, it's no worse than a lot of science fiction from that period.
Rand *did* do a good jopb of identifying a lot of social problems (including setting up guilt as a control mechanism, and setting things up so people inevitably have *something* to feel guilty about).
She gets points for that.
But she *completely* blew it with her proposed solutions. :-(