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Mysteries of life: Can an ancient male priest be a mummy?
What I love about this mummy story is the first paragraph: An Egyptian mummy that for decades was thought to be a male priest was recently discovered to have been a pregnant woman, making it the first known case of … Continue reading
Posted in How I Learned The Facts of Life, Mysteries of Life, The Facts of Life
Tagged Egyptian mummy, pregnant mummy
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Did I ever tell you about the time Facebook censured me?
No? Well… My relationship with Facebook has always been amiable and simple. I use it primarily to see photos and videos of my brand new great-nephew, Jack, in his very jazzy onesies with matching caps. And then I go on … Continue reading
Posted in How I Learned The Facts of Life, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life
Tagged Christian racism, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Facebook, Facebook censorship, internet advertising, Mississippi senator, racism, social media, social media censorship, social media trolls, trolls farms
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Stalin’s “road of bones”
The Sunday, November 22 New York Times main section displayed a striking photograph across the top of the page. It pictured a short section of a two lane highway, the R504 Kolyma Highway, in a remote part of Russia. The … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, How I Learned The Facts of Life, The Facts of Life
Tagged Andrew Higgins, Kolyma Highway, Kolyma Tales, Stalin, the road of bones, Varlam Shalamov, Yuri Dmitriev
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