Friday, June 23, 2017

@19:00, 6/23/17

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Opinion

What Americans Get Wrong About Porn

Many people think watching porn somehow rewires our sexual preferences, but the evidence doesn’t back that up.

"It is better to marry than to burn."
http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/7-9.htm
American protestants take the King James version seriously.
Painters of images have found that what sells are pictures of sexually available people.   Other images are made to order.

I suspect some of the orders come from deeply perverse people.


Books

Where Do Babies Come From? And Why Did It Take Scientists So Long to Find Out?

For centuries, the mysteries of egg and sperm eluded even the greatest minds, Edward Dolnick writes in “The Seeds of Life.”

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/onanism

Edward Dolnick  indulges in alternate facts and Abraham Verghese did not do his homework.

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Smarter Living

Take Naps at Work. Apologize to No One.

Supercharge your productivity by scheduling in some down time.

The thought appeals.
The theory of management I encounter conflicts with the thought.

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Job Market

When You’d Rather Not Be a Reference

A friend re-entering the work force wants your endorsement, but your feelings are mixed, at best. Here’s how to proceed.

Good advice.

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U.S.

Texas Nurse Suspected of Killing Up to 60 Children Is Charged With Murder

The nurse, Genene Jones, is currently serving concurrent sentences in the death of a girl and injury to a child in 1984. The new charges come ahead of her planned release from prison next year.

The Prosecutor is being spiteful.

Genene Jones knew what she was doing and the risks she ran. 
The legal system did not further prosecute her at the time.  

This prosecution looks like double jeopardy.  

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Food

The Joys of a Classic Ice Cream Sandwich

The hand-held combination of a chocolate base and vanilla ice cream is sure to please everyone.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018812-ice-cream-sandwiches

I would eat and enjoy.

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U.S.

Inmates Come to Georgia Deputy’s Rescue After He Collapses

Several inmates in a work program in Polk County, Ga., may get time off their jail sentences after aiding a deputy who was overseeing them.

Common humanity has power even in Georgia.

A feel good story.

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Arts

How an Afro-Cuban Visionary Made a Man’s World Her Own

There is nothing simple about the work of Belkis Ayón, a printmaker who drew her inspiration from the Abaquá, a secret male society with an origin story based on female betrayal.

For the moment Trump must maintain good relations with the anticommunists.
His contacts with Putin are frightening to him.

Cuba is another problem.
They will do better without sugar and tourism.

I would like to see Caribbean wildlife survive and thrive.

Golf will not help the gulf.

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N.Y. / Region

Who’s That Cat?

A happy memory on a sad occasion.

I remember my cat.
His successor was my sister's cat Leya.
Generally known as Cattleya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattleya

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Books

Why Did Lincoln Move So Slowly to Abolish Slavery? Because He Was a Racist, This Book Argues.

Fred Kaplan’s “Lincoln and the Abolitionists” emphasizes the distance between them.

Abraham Lincoln deserves a better biography.
Fred Kaplan has not written it.

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