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Six years ago I was holding a spoon over my coffee at 8 pm in my mother’s kitchen. It was a survivor from childhood, one of the original set we had with a trailing vine motif. It had to be lowered to the counter very carefully. Lower it too fast and it would make an audible…
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Note: This is a piece about some of my memories. If you're reading this on a device connected to the Internet, you can listen to the songs that have…
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No. It's a personality disorder expressing itself as a gender fetish. This is not "inherently male". It is not unknown among women. It is common to…
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1. Though I don't believe in the supernatural, ghost stories scare the hell out of me at night. There's an attraction/terror. I tease myself with them…
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A serious, possibly fatal to our Republic, ignorance shared by most citizens: The concept of inherent rights. Most Americans not only “misunderstand…
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We all know a version of the aphorism that young people are liberal, but become more conservative as they age. It’s generally true*. It’s been true for…
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I've been thinking about mutual mistrust. This dynamic obtains between so many "groups" of people. The one I'm thinking about right now is the group…
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