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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
This is not from a New Yorker article, but on the news the Southern Baptists are saying that since Roe v Wade was overturned, they feel empowered to go after an overturn of equal marriage rights. I feel like we're playing Jenga with the laws of the land; keep pulling them out one by one until the whole thing topples. >:(
How do people feel about the article on fewer Gen Z people having sex?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 27, 2025, 04:46:19 pm ---How do people feel about the article on fewer Gen Z people having sex?
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Haven't got to that one yet, and it doesn't sound like an article that would interest me anyway.
I've skipped ahead to the article about Philadelphia's Mutter Museum. I once used the library there for some research (it wasn't very helpful), but I've never toured the exhibits.
I was interested to learn that Dr. Mutter was one of the first surgeons in Philadelphia to advocate the use of anesthesia for surgery.
serious crayons:
I'm STILL not getting print NYers. I called yesterday and the woman on the phone apologized and said something about my apartment number being left off. I wasn't clear if she meant it was left off when I called to complain nine days earlier about not getting them, or before that. They had no problem getting them to me for about four years until they stopped a couple of months ago, so I don't know what the deal is.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 28, 2025, 03:37:38 pm ---I'm STILL not getting print NYers. I called yesterday and the woman on the phone apologized and said something about my apartment number being left off. I wasn't clear if she meant it was left off when I called to complain nine days earlier about not getting them, or before that. They had no problem getting them to me for about four years until they stopped a couple of months ago, so I don't know what the deal is.
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Yeah, what's up with that? >:(
Front-Ranger:
I've been getting ready to take some back issues to the Little Free Library, so I was reading "A Time to Kill" in the April 28 issue. I usually pass over Civil War content, but this one seemed newly relevant. History is being rewritten a lot and the latest versions can be unsettling. (I'm sure the versions coming out after the Trumpistration gets to them will be even more unsettling still.)
I wasn't aware of the efforts before Lincoln to get slavery abolished. Also, I didn't know that Lincoln proposed compromises such as gradual emancipation for the border states only. After reading the article, I still can't answer for myself the question of whether the Civil War could have been avoided. Possibly if wealthy Northern industrialists had bought and relocated all the slaves in the Southern states, but then that would have left no one to work the plantations.
What a charismatic person Lincoln was! I'm almost inspired to read his biography or watch the movie with Daniel Day-Lewis.
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