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How much would you expect a simple packet of loose-leaf paper to cost?
Two dollars?  Maybe three?
You’ll imagine my surprise when my state university’s bookstore charged me 5.87.  How could they possibly justify such a price?
By putting the words “eco-friendly” on the front cover.
I asked the cashier if they had a different, cheaper “Fuck the Earth” […]

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One of my friends showed this to me. I like it.
I married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My father, who visited us quite often, fell in love with my step-daughter and married her. Hence, my father became my son-in-law, and my step-daughter became my mother. Some months later, my wife gave birth […]

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I am going to teach you how to teach someone something so that they will remember.

Tell them what you’re going to tell them.
Tell them.
Tell them that you’ve told them.

That is how you teach someone something so that they will remember.

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There are a few things that I currently understand. There are a lot of things that I will eventually understand. There are things that I will never understand, but I have confidence that I could understand if I spent time with a skilled teacher.
And then there are things that I cannot, will not, […]

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I had a short text message exchange that I thought was particularly enlightening.  It’s about one of humanity’s most damaging emotional defenses.
 
 
 
CB: It doesn’t bug me that ppl are stupid, because I really don’t think that ppl are.  It bugs me that ppl PLAY stupid to avoid thinking about things that make them uncomfortable.  It’s fucking […]

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