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Creeping Puritanism Paved the Way for Regression
Those of us who came of age during the height of the Sexual Revolution, otherwise known as the Best Times in American History, Like Evah, looked upon the 1950s with disdain. The 1950s were scorned as puritanical, uptight, and repressed. Breastfeeding was frowned upon, open breastfeeding was unthinkable, and we spoke of menstrual periods in…
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At The Edge Of Knowability
Dark is the symbolic color of mystery; its realm is the shadowed ramparts and recesses that wonder inhabits as it awaits the light of discovery that has yet to shine into it. This is no less true in cosmology, where unknown forces and factors often attract the adjective “dark.” “Dark matter,” for example, comprises the…
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The Email from the Other Side
Back in 2008, when the Bakersfield Californian had online reader blogs at their website, I started to become friends with a fellow blogger lady named Nancy. We emailed back and forth for quite some time, and started to become friends. The friendship didn’t last, as our personalities proved to be incompatible, so we stopped emailing…
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