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Angel in the Waters (amzn.to/3RUhG0c) is a modern* classic, and the best for talking about a new sibling growing. Parents are gonna cry though.
*anything post-dating my childhood is modern.
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Here is another piece I wrote back in November, which may of interest to you!
Republican senator Dave McCormick condemns the arson against Governor Shapiro’s home: “We must call out the radical rhetoric and political violence that we have all witnessed over the course of this decade.”
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Are babies “queer”? What does that even mean?
In the first episode of our new podcast, Citation Needed, and I dissect a peer-reviewed paper recently published in a Springer Nature journal that is more than just bizarre—it’s disturbing.
Feminists who married shrimp & an academic who says all babies are “queer”
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Derrick Harmon is an interesting and unique prospect, who could fit very well with what the Chiefs need on the DL.
I wrote about him in Part 2 of “know your Chiefs draft crush.”
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I feel like this image perfectly encapsulates left wing environmentalism
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For those interested in arguments for single-sex schools, here is an op-ed piece I wrote for The Hill, in which I offer a “new case” for all-boys schools.
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Bible Gateway passage: Romans 13:6-7 - English Standard Version
For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Look how happy or reassured men look when they are touching. In amateur shots they are equally at ease and warm when looking at a photographer that they like or love. And, look at the boy on the right in the last image, gazing at the buttocks of the main subject. Nice music, incidently.
Glad you enjoyed, Ray…the photos and the music. That last photo always makes me smile. If memory serves, the model was Mr. Teen USA (or something) on tour of a UK boy’s school in the 1960s. I wish I had someone like him to visit my school back when I was a lad. :-)
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