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Tuskegee for everyone
After “Covid,” I finally understand in a personal, real way why the Tuskegee experiment made American blacks permanently distrustful of the medical…
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"People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one"
Really, they tell me I’m living in the past. Yes. I’m re-living parts of the past I overlooked and threw away before I was mature enough to understand…
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Welcome to Oceania
episode 138
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This is not the essay I wanted to present to you
A very modern frustration. I just canned the beginning of an essay I really wanted to write. My hope was that it would open a good conversation with…
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September Flood Update
We're in the home stretch! Here's a video update for me for all the kind donors who helped me pay to rehabilitate my flood destroyed house. I am so…
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We are living in a Cluster B world
the hypothesis of Disaffected
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I need to stop being Sisyphus
men, do you need to stop, too?
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Sororal Treachery
episode 137
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Who did you expect to be?
I’m nothing like the person I expected to be. Are you? Mornings bring bracing clarity of thought, I’ve discovered, at least since hangovers are no…
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Did you see her or not?
Josh and George on 1970s horror films
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Bits and bobs
leftover surprise
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Are you being clear?
almost certainly not
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