Facebook & Twitter Notes, March 24, 2019

Note the date -- prior to the election of 2016.

This American Life, Program 599: Seriously?

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Audio version of The Fertility Doctor's Secret in the Atlantic is 34 minutes long. I stopped listening midway feeling like a voyeur.

Liz White was one of Donald Cline’s patients.

Assisted reproduction is now as much a part of everyday life as portable phones and cosmetic medical procedures. Botox and opioid meds come to mind. How they are used is more important than the phenomena.

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This is a grim thought. He's surely wrong about the report but undeniably right about Trump. 

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This Tweet is very insightful.

That’s because outside schizophrenia most mental disorder doesn’t have “biological roots”, it has social and familial ones. Biologizing the psychological is a remnant of American supremacist thinking, of social Darwinism, of the old idea of genetic inferiority. https://t.co/LCYPM6cPgk

— ❤️ (@umairh) March 24, 2019

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News was slow this morning (wait for Bob Mueller's mysterious package to the AG to be opened) so I amused myself by visiting a couple of TED talks by Misha Glenny. I just finished this one.

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When will this madness end?

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Check this headline: Beto O’Rourke is a walking, talking Generation X cliche

Sample from the link...

Having a problem with authority is more about being appealingly subversive than having experienced real oppression at the hands of people who abuse authority. It’s much easier to stick it to the man when, for all intents and purposes, you could be the man, pending a few alternate life choices. Rinse...Repeat... 

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