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What Goes Around Comes Around

Everything’s interconnected. The following is from G. Legman’s Rationale of the Dirty Joke Vol 2 (1973) p. 371: In a nice example of psychological displacement, Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have hit his son at the dinner table, whereupon his son in turn … Continue reading

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Swine Flu Quote of the Day

John Donne’s “Meditation 17″ in 1624:  “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, … Continue reading

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Mexico City Swine Flu: Evolution Happens

Just ask Mexico’s national Health Secretary, Jose Cordova. The Los Angeles Times today: “We have confirmation that this is a mutant of a virus that comes from pigs that . . . never had provoked an epidemic, that is, had … Continue reading

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Two Faces—or Curvy Girl Martian?

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