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Follow AlongNew Podcast to Hear – Because Everyone Has a Story Episode #24
I am happy to share the work of a lovely creator, Daniela Stockfleth-Menis, who has a podcast out of Vancouver, called BEHAS: Because Everyone Has a Story. Daniela has a website below for the podcast that includes all 24 episodes released, mostly in English with three...
Fake IDs
How many of you looked for a fake ID in your late teens to be able to drink or go into a bar? Or go into a movie house with an R rated or NC-17 movie ("X rated" when I was a kid)? When I was in college the drinking age was briefly dropped to 18, and then went up to 21...
Don’t Defund or Abolish the Police. Abolish the F&*$#& Guns
It seems to me that this debate has been going back and forth since the summer of 2020 and the murder of George P. Floyd. If not longer. There's an argument to be made that the calls to Defund the Police contributed to Democratic losses in Congress and in State...
Wishcycle Bins and Wishcycling
The other day we saw a significant segment on John Oliver's @LastWeekTonight that discussed the pernicious and pervasive presence of plastics in our environment. While I had read a bit about the wide ranging pollution from microplastics all over the world, even in the...
Why Do We Use the Terms “Molest”, “Molester” and “Molestation”?
The recent revelations about what Dylan Farrow went through at the disgusting hands of Woody Allen have raised for me a more general question about language: why do we use such sanitized words to describe such obscene acts? Perhaps it has to do with legal terminology,...
Bill Maher was Foolish Last Friday about Allen v Farrow – It’s True We Were All Duped.
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/allen-v-farrowI watched Bill Maher Friday night, and was a bit surprised and alarmed by the reaction he offered about the new HBO documentary about Woody Allen and his alleged sexual predation within the Farrow family. I had been familiar of course with the reports of the...