Author Archives: Naomi

Part I. What about Ghislaine’s prison move?

Ah, well. Since I’ve created myself as sort of sub-expert in the workings of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a/k/a BoP, and since I’ve written fairly extensively in this blog about my personal experience with the BoP during the now-forgotten … Continue reading

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A discovery about male fruit flies and sex. Applicable to human males?

From Harpers June 2025 Findings: Male fruit flies seek out alcohol because it makes them more attractive to female flies and more successful at mating, not, as was previously theorized, because they are depressed about not yet having mated.

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Have you noticed what one news medium is doing re Trump?

While you’re raging over, say, the New York Times headlines (even Paul Krugman did a job on the one misstating Trump’s “achievements”), I’ve been spotting a subtle but meaningful difference in the way the paper reports about Trump statements. Today, … Continue reading

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