On this page the following entries were made in the “March, 2007” time-frame.
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Intellectual Pessimism
In our more honest moments, I think many of us have at some point harbored (or even now harbor) a somewhat pessimistic view of the universe. Emotionally, I consider myself a realist, even an optimist. But I think I have developed what I’ll refer to as an intellectual pessimism. I derived this term from a passage […]
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She Puts the “Bang” in “Banging”
A friend sent me a link to a snopes.com article which said that sex therapist Dr. Ruth was actually trained as a sniper. From Wikipedia we learn that
Westheimer was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to a Jewish family. During World War II, she was sent without her parents to Switzerland when she was ten years […]
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