Month: March 2005

What’s in a name?

Obviously, I don’t want to make light of elder abuse, but this article from the Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News caught my eye: Care home figure had criminal record One of four people charged with neglecting and abusing...

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Gays in the Holocaust

Or why the religious right creeps me out. “He lectured me on the role of homosexuality in history and politics. It had destroyed ancient Greece, he said. Once rife, it extended its contagious effects like an ineluctable...

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War and Aggression are Natural

  There has never been a time in the History of Humankind, when Aggression and War have not been the Natural state of the World.  When the first hominids learned to walk upright, greed, attack and defense, were keys to...

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You Mean Lisa?

In the Simpsons’ episode “Viva Ned Flanders”, Ned watches Homer cycle through one of his typically frontal-lobe challenged days, which leads to this exchange: Ned: How do you do it, Homer? How do you silence...

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Some thoughts about the Frog

Well, we’ve had a lot of suggestions on naming the Frog. And we need to make some progress here, people. So, I went through and picked out twenty names that either got a lot of support, or just struck me as damn funny....

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