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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. –Peter De Vries   Why don’t Americans know how to get and stay married? Whatever we think the word means we still value marriage very highly: The National Marriage Project and the Gallup poll organization have found that between 80 [...]

We’re in a new hidey-hole, and as usual we’ve lost half a dozen things we really need: toothpaste, butter, even coffee. And now half asleep, feeling like I’ve got fur on my teeth, I’m supposed to figure out whether we can take a mother on our team. Someday, when I get my chance, I’m not gonna kill Them. (To be honest, I don’t even know if They die.) It’s going to be torture, and it’s going to be slow.

Sarah stood for a moment, listening, and felt a surge of anger and resentment: All the furniture in her old room had been replaced, but she still had the memories that tied her to her father’s house. She was partly here, a guest in the guest bedroom, and partly still thirteen years old and at home.

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Erdogan To Obama: Strong Horse Or Weak Horse? 18 May 2013, 5:59 am

At a joint press conference at the White House on Thursday, President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told us what we already knew: They agree that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “needs to go.” The problem, however, lies in the actual playing out of teamwork. Since the start of the civil war [...]

Source: AFF Doublethink Online AFF Doublethink Online | Elisha Maldonado

Authoritarian Can’t Hide Embarrassing Story In The Internet Age 16 May 2013, 9:41 pm

Horses and powerful rulers have an odd relationship. Roman Emperor Caligula named his horse a consul. More recently, the horse of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov almost killed him. Wearing traditional national dress Turkmen, the authoritarian leader was thrown from his horse last month in a race held in Turkmenistan. He was apparently briefly knocked unconscious [...]

Source: AFF Doublethink Online AFF Doublethink Online | Joseph Hammond