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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3760 on: June 27, 2025, 04:46:19 pm »
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?
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3761 on: June 27, 2025, 10:20:51 pm »
How do people feel about the article on fewer Gen Z people having sex?

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.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3762 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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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3763 on: June 28, 2025, 04:16:39 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.

Yeah, what's up with that?  >:(
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3764 on: July 01, 2025, 11:58:25 am »
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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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3765 on: July 01, 2025, 11:31:29 pm »
What a charismatic person Lincoln was! I'm almost inspired to read his biography or watch the movie with Daniel Day-Lewis.

The movie with Daniel Day-Lewis is quite good. Tommy Lee Jones is Lancaster, Pennsylvania's own Thaddeus Stevens.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3766 on: Today at 09:27:13 am »
Interesting, Wrangler.

I was also struck by the profile of Sayaka Murata in the April 14th issue. I've not heard of the concept of defamiliarization before. Making the familiar strange. I like that idea and have started to practice it. Isn't that what makes Brokeback Mountain, the story, so shocking and effective? You take a couple of gay men and put them in a different environment, like rural Wyoming, and voila! You have a mindbending story.

I've often tried to visualize what Earth would look like for space creatures looking down on us. A bunch of beetles scurrying around on round rubber feet, I imagine. A few birds, some large with shiny metal feathers, and a few snakelike things slithering along tracks.
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