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MEMORY LANE AND BACK AGAIN

HIGH SCHOOL IN THE FIRST GRADE When I first went to school it was at Berryhill  High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I rode a yellow school …

MEMORY LANE AND BACK AGAIN

Simone de Beauvoir

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” É pelo trabalho que a mulher vem diminuindo a distância que a separava do homem, somente o trabalho poderá garantir-lhe uma independência concreta. “

Simone de Beauvoir

De mulheres, De homens

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Marii Freire

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Santarém, Pá 8 de junho de 2023

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♫ Li’l Red Riding Hood ♫

Filosofa's Word

I can’t believe I haven’t played this one here before!  My inspiration for thinking of it today was a thought I had upon reading about yet another ‘Christian’ organization vilifying the LGBTQ community … the thought process that led from point A to point X will be explained elsewhere, no doubt, but I was excited to see that I have yet to play this one, so … something different for a change!

Written by Ronald Blackwell and produced by Stan Kesler, this was the second big semi-novelty hit for the Texas band Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs. Their debut hit Wooly Bully (my favourite!) also made it to #2.  It also made #2 in Canada and a big #46 in the UK!

Sam, whose real name is Domingo Samudio, developed his act in the Dallas area where he played lots of local dances. With the Pharaohs, he became a…

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THOUGHTS

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Centuries of discord or complementarity?  The Yin Yang symbol of Taoist origin is supposedly ideal, but for whom?  A glance down the ages of sexist stereotyping  may be seen in the attributes of the two sexes.  Which do you think is which sex,  embodied in the symbol?:

Cold vs hot; night vs day; black vs white; shadow vs. light; receptive vs. active; concealed vs. open; negative vs. positive; old vs young; water vs. fire; and poor vs rich?   Which sex is black, which is white?  If you have trouble guessing, look it up:  Source is the blog prepscholar.com/yinyang symbol, if you’re not sure.

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VOTING FOR WIDESPREAD PAIN IN THE NAME OF RELIGION

The N.Y. Times column The Ethicist recently responded to a deeply felt conundrum:  Is bringing a baby into the world, given the projected climate crisis, ethical?   Even the question is sorely in contrast to those who…

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