Posts by Deborah
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I saw that "boy" comment too, and I find it hard to believe that it wasn't a deliberate appeal to racism.
I just get tired of the "you must be racist if you support Clinton" and the "you must be sexist if you support Obama" memes running around in the US feminist blogs that I read. D'uh! There are plenty of good reasons to be for, or against, either of the remaining Democrat candidates, independent of race and gender.
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Salon has a lengthy article by Rebecca Traister about how the cultish "Obama boys" don't like Hillary Clinton because, well, they're sexist. There's no doubt there is creeping misogyny threaded through the political sphere.
It's not just creeping - it's blatant. Feministing has an on-going Hillary sexism watch - some of the things on it are appallingly misogynist.
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Climate change forecasts 'invalid' - researcher. The article is about two academics, what it doesn't mention is that one is in management, the other in marketing.
Green especially seems to be good in his field (forecasting theory), but it's hard to take seriously his wholesale denunciation of people working in fields where he clearly isn't expert.
The other researcher, Scott Armstrong, is a world leader in forecasting techniques. So they do have somethng sensible to say about how to go abount doing forecasting. Whether or not we know about all the variables that should be taken into account in forecasting temperature changes / climate change is a different matter.
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That's what I like about PAS - the learned conversations, delving into social history and poetry.
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Ah... my elder daughter could count to 10 at the age of two. And the day after her second birthday, she got up and said, "No Mummy. No nappies today. Today I wear purple knickers."
No such thing with my younger daughters tho'. They barely used words at all at age two, and it took them until about age four to manage counting to ten.
Second children are such a reality check.
As for powerful contraceptives - I recommend twins. They are often the last children in a family.
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Lucy, I've read the thesis.
Whatever the thesis purports to be about, the conclusion is at least holocaust revisionism. The writer does not deny the holocaust, but he does question some holocaust facts, and writes the conclusion in such a way that it [the conclusion] is plausibly read as revisionism through to denialism.
However it's drawing a long bow to conclude from one thesis that holocaust deniers abounded at Canterbury.
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Thanks, Russell.
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More like the palm oil chaps, I thought. They were fun!
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And my dad, who is "David", gets very irate at being called "Dave", especially by people who are trying to sell something to him.
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Yes.