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This post is a throwback from a few years ago. I thought I would revisit it today and some other old posts in the future for folks that are new to the thoughts rolling around in my head. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a 32 year old man who still enjoys the occasional children’s book. Well, mostly just the Chronicles of Narnia(with the occasional dash of Harry Potter).

A lifetime ago, I used to write movie reviews for The Daily Press’s weekend section, but it was before I had much in the way of street cred (as if I have that much now), so it was basically a situation where I’d get in free to the movie in exchange for writing a review for the paper. These reviews were invariably for films for which the paper didn’t get advance screenings, and one of them was Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers, a film which has precisely two things going for it, only one of which was important at the time.

We have a lot to thank the 80’s for, Ra Ra skirts, Dallas, CD players and Findus Crispy Pancakes. Another thing you may have remembered seeing, hung in living rooms walls everywhere, was a Crying Boy painting. Who knows how the popularity for having a miserable looking child staring down at you started, but start it did and pretty soon walls everywhere were graced with varying images of tear stained toddlers.

In my last survey on women’s postpartum experiences, 52% of women reported experiencing some form of abuse in the fragile postpartum period. In an earlier survey, about half of women reported experiencing various forms of emotional abuse and psychological terror in their marriages. Emotional abuse is the norm in heterosexual marriages. Yet many women don’t recognize the abuse for what it is, thanks to society’s ongoing gaslighting and loved one’s insistence that this is just the way men are.

QI Research brings both Wall Street and Federal Reserve experience together with a vast network of connections across the finance industry. We triangulate institutional sentiment, what central banks watch, and how monetary policy affects investing. Over 25,000 subscribers No thanks“Danielle is a former Fed insider who is not only incredibly knowledgeable about monetary policy and the inner workings of the Fed but unafraid to speak truthfully about how the Fed does and does not do its job.

I don’t watch nearly as many “skeptical” YouTube channels as I did in the first decade or so of the 21st century, when Christian creationists in the U.S. were trying in significant numbers to have the Book of Genesis taught in place of biological evolution in public-school science classes. It’s hard to believe that only fifteen years ago, this was the most significant culture-war conflict affecting public education, given how comprehensively depraved so many public-school teachers and their antics are today.

The last time I was in Las Vegas, I walked by a place with a gigantic sign that just said DAIQUIRIS, which was what they claimed to be selling.  As I recall, almost every drink on the menu was served blended over crushed ice in a gigantic tube-like structure that served as glassware. Virtually of the drinks were some bright crayon-box color — red, blue, orange, etc. I’m not sure what was in those drinks.

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