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On the other hand: Speaking truth to power is never wrong.

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Yikes. Some of the incorrect summaries included a claim about the champion of a darts championship before it even happened, and the false claim that a tennis player came out as gay. www.howtogeek.com/apple-intell...

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"She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action." Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady.

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In reversal, key House panel votes to release Matt Gaetz ethics report - CNN

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"He was sure Pansy had never looked at a newspaper and that, in the way of novels, if she had read Sir Walter Scott it was the very most." Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady.

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I wondered why nobody talks about NFTs anymore. www.slaw.ca/2024/12/17/a...

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"You were not meant to be measured in that way -- you were meant for something better than to keep guard over the sensibilities of a sterile dilettante!" Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady.

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In his final opinion column for the New York Times, Paul Krugman writes about the "Age of Resentment". For more on this theme, read Frank Bruni's book, The Age of Grievance, published in 2024, but before the election.

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Worthington City Schools unanimously voted to rescind its religious release policy Monday night. Lifewise Academy is kicked out.

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Re the restroom wars: While a law student, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to use the janitor's bathroom in the basement because the Harvard Law Library had no bathroom for female law students. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

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"She believed then that at bottom she had a different morality. Of course the morality of civilized persons has always much in common; but our young woman had a sense in her of values gone wrong or, as they said at the shops, marked down." Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady. (1881).

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"Intellectually, doubtless, [Isabel] had made immense strides; but she appeared to have achieved few of those social conquests of which Mrs. Ludlow had expected to admire the trophies." Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady.

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"'If I do succeed before I die I shall thoroughly have earned it.' He was to apt to reason as if 'earning' this boon consisted above all of covertly aching for it and might be confined to that exercise." Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady.

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"Your trauma is something that happened to you; it’s not who you are." Cochrun, Alison. Kiss Her Once for Me: A Novel (p. 304). Atria Books. Kindle Edition.

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Sunrise over downtown Columbus, Ohio.

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Putin’s planes took Ukrainian kids into “coerced” Russian adoption, a Yale report says - NPR

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"She [Pansy] was like a sheet of blank paper -- the ideal jeune fille of foreign fiction. Isabel hoped that so fair and smooth a page would be covered with an edifying text." Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady.

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In other news, attorney is having a hissy fit because we are charging him a $50 lost book fee because the item is 6 months overdue. He says the book isn’t lost; he just hasn’t “had time” to return it.

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"She took, it will be observed, not the sentimental, but the political, view of matrimony -- a view which has always had much to recommend it." Henry James. The Portrait of a Lady. (1881).

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“It’s hard to believe we live in a world where parents let their kids beat sex workers in Grand Theft Auto and then worry that a graphic novel about a nonbinary person is going to screw them up.” Miller, Kirsten. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books: A Novel (p. 224).

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For anybody who doubts the liberal arts still have relevance, watch the movie Ghostlight. It uses Shakespeare to explain a parent's love.

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Just followed all the drag queens on here. Should make it a little more fun.

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"Pansy stared, disappointed, yet not protesting. She was evidently impregnated with the idea of submission, which was due to any one who took the tone of authority; and she was a passive spectator of the operation of her fate." The Portrait of a Lady. Henry James (1881).

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Abolishing the Dept of Ed would create roadblocks for how Trump seeks to implement the rest of his wide-ranging education agenda. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/11/25/d...

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Trump camp rivalries come to fore over efforts to oust top advisor - The Guardian

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Found this in my files from the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati: PLANNING FOR THE CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN IF YOU ARE DETAINED OR DEPORTED www.lasswo.org/wp-content/u...

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