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Information packaging, Victorian style
Before Google, there was Goodykoontz
How did anyone live before Google? In Victorian times, books like Goodykoontz's Manual and Collier's Encyclopedia told people everything they needed to know. They made useful doorstoppers, too.
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What messages do today's women send?
Casualty of the sex abuse debate: Whatever happened to women's intuition?
Today's media revolution has eliminated millennia of intergenerational knowledge about what it means to be a human being. And if we women don't fully understand ourselves and the messages we're sending, how can men?
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Antidote for sex addicts: chocolate
Like sex for chocolate
Always another sex scandal in the news. And what's the big deal about sex, anyway? Eating chocolate, on the other hand, produces pleasure that extends from your mouth and taste buds all the way down to your tummy.
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Greece's fiscal crisis — and ours
Government by bankers, or: Watching democracy die in its cradle
The key question in Greece's current fiscal crisis goes something like this: When you already have a democracy that won't respond to its citizens, what do you revolt against then?
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Sex abuse: How to respond to Dan Rottenberg
Sex abuse and Dan's column: What's sexy, and why it matters
To correct Dan Rottenberg and simply say that women are never responsible for male sexual aggression isn't really addressing the very real male reactions to cleavage, legs, etc. And why are women still buying into male definitions of what is "sexy"?
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Rethinking America's priorities
We're Number Two? Sounds good to me
Rome and the British Empire foundered on their overweening pride. Maybe it's time for Americans to re-examine the costs and benefits of being Number One in perpetuity.
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What's cancer really like?
The romancing of cancer (by one who's been there)
Take it from one who knows from experience: We do cancer patients a disservice if we see the fight but not the rage, the fear, the full storm of emotions that strikes mortals facing their own mortality.
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Hitler's ultimate irony
Hitler's racial purity: One key question
How did Hitler manage to hijack Wagner's Aryan ideal when he wasn't an ideal Aryan himself?
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Why did Anthony Weiner resign?
Our fantasy lives, the Internet, and Anthony Weiner
Everybody agreed that Congressman Anthony Weiner had to resign for sharing his ego and his privates online. But he broke no laws and no rules of the House. He didn't prostitute himself politically, at least any more than his self-righteous colleagues. Liberated by ostracism to speak his mind, he could have done a great deal of public good.
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"Seeing Gertrude Stein' in San Francisco
A feminist's question: What was Gertrude Stein really about?
Gertrude Stein wrote unreadable prose, admired Hitler, had little use for women, betrayed her fellow Jews and was unspeakably mean to her longtime companion. Yet for one reason, I forgive her everything.
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