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So I am more than a little late to this (I think it came out last year?) but if you haven’t played/read “My Father’s Long, Long Legs” (AND YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE; IT’S POSSIBLE TO MISS THINGS ON THE INTERNET, YOU KNOW, EVEN WHEN “THE INTERNET” IS YOUR JOB), please take some time to do so today.

Heads up that it is scary. Words scary, not images-that-will-burn-themselves-into-your-skull scary, but still.


Schools’ Discipline for Girls Differs by Race and Hue:

An analysis by Villanova researchers of data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health indicated that black girls with the darkest skin tones were three times more likely to be suspended than black girls with the lightest skin.

There are different gender expectations for black girls compared with white girls, said Lance Hannon, a Villanova sociology professor who conducted the analysis. And, he said, there are different expectations within cross-sections of black girls. “When a darker-skinned African-American female acts up, there’s a certain concern about their boyish aggressiveness,” Dr. Hannon said, “that they don’t know their place as a female, as a woman.”


“Forty years after the fact, the story of the Doodler killings has not been even cursorily told. Unlike cases with similar body counts—the Zodiac Killer and David Berkowitz, for example—this one was quickly forgotten. It was, perhaps, somewhat a matter of timing. When the killings began, it had been just a year since the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees ceased classifying homosexuality as a disorder. Most media outlets, just maybe, did not consider gay men sufficiently sympathetic to rate coverage. And then, four and half years after the killings ended, San Francisco’s own Ken Horne, a ballet school dropout, was reported to the Centers for Disease Control with Kaposi’s Sarcoma. Five murdered men would become, relative to what followed, a statistical blip.”

Elon Green and forgotten serial killers. I could not but click.


I know it’s just a regular storm by any other state’s standards, but all I can think is “Thank goodness, we need the rain” in my mother’s voice. “Don’t bring us any water! We’re in a drought!” she adds to an invisible waitress who exists only in my mind.


The term Great Year has a variety of related meanings. It is defined by NASA as “The period of one complete cycle of the equinoxes around the ecliptic, about 25,800 years […] also known as [a] Platonic Year.” One complete cycle of the equinoxes here means one complete cycle of axial precession, this precession was known to Plato, who defined the “perfect year” as the return of the celestial bodies (planets) and the diurnal rotation of the fixed stars (circle of the Same) to their original positions, from his studying in Egypt for 13 years. Cicero followed Plato in defining the Great Year as a combination of solar, lunar and planetary cycles (61 XX) Nicholas Campion writes of “periods of History, analogous to the solar year, known as ‘Great Years.’ “

Other ideas still emerged for concept and debate.

Josephus refers to a ‘Great Year’  of 600 years.

God afforded them a longer time of life on account of their virtue, and the good use they made of it in astronomical and geometrical discoveries, which would not have afforded the time of foretelling [the periods of the stars] unless they had lived six hundred years; for the great year is completed in that interval.

LET’S ALL LEARN ABOUT FAKE ASTRONOMICAL CONCEPTS TODAY

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