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Talkin’ Roller Derby: Wummin’s Sports Edition
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Read more: Talkin’ Roller Derby: Wummin’s Sports EditionWhen I witness women engaging in competitive sport, a smile will usually sweep across my face, as if I just saw a baby wearing a sombrero or something. And when I see women fighting, a pulse of adrenaline shoots through me, like when I win ten bucks from a scratch off.
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Being a doctor in rural Africa
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Read more: Being a doctor in rural AfricaRural Kenya in winter is colder than one would expect, even when you are from Wisconsin. The hospital where I am working is effectively isolated from the rest of the world. The phone works rarely, and the internet connection exists only in theory.
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The Misunderstood: Lesbian Prison Guard, Caged (1950)
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Read more: The Misunderstood: Lesbian Prison Guard, Caged (1950)In a sadistic women’s prison teeming with lesbians, no one can hear you scream.
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The Universe and the Stupidly Superstitious
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Read more: The Universe and the Stupidly SuperstitiousThe vast majority of people worldwide, and the vast majority of Americans, do not believe the universe is 13.8 billion years old, nor that our planet is 4.5 billion years old.
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Fuck Creationism
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Read more: Fuck CreationismEvolutionary theory is the cornerstone of the biological sciences and without it nothing makes any sense at all.
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Memories of a Reagan Boyhood: Part 4
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Read more: Memories of a Reagan Boyhood: Part 4Numerous NFL stars have died during their glory days, from Jerome Brown to Derrick Thomas, but Delaney was the first. Not ever, of course, but he remains the most indelibly marked on my memory.
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Memories of a Reagan Boyhood: Part 3
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Read more: Memories of a Reagan Boyhood: Part 3Spring, 1984. Morning in America. Jobs for all, uncertainty vanquished, world peace finally at hand. Even the homeless had a little extra bounce in their step
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Memories of a Reagan Boyhood: Part 2
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Read more: Memories of a Reagan Boyhood: Part 2Once my parents divorced, there were few reasons to spend any amount of time at my dad’s house, and I’m fairly sure he knew it. He was grouchy, mean, and smoked so much that a visit was like having a front row seat at a round-the-clock forest fire.
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Memories of a Reagan Boyhood: Part 1
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Read more: Memories of a Reagan Boyhood: Part 1Where my life went off the rails…..
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See You in Disneyland
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Read more: See You in DisneylandTed Bundy would have to be one of my favorite serial killers. How can you not love the endlessly fascinating little scamp, given his yen for necrophilia and keeping severed heads as trinkets?