This is so interesting -- a flyer for the first birth control clinic in the US, in 1916 in Brooklyn. [link] The text is in English, Hebrew, and Italian.
They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.
River ,'Ariel'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 09, 2011 5:48:13 am PST #5545 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sumi - Nov 09, 2011 5:51:10 am PST #5546 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Hil - that's what the media are saying in general. That's the Penn State reputation. I haven't spoken to my relatives who are Penn State grads to get their reaction. (Most of them are not too football inclined.)
Article on the disappearance of the former district attorney. Very odd.
Ginger - Nov 09, 2011 5:51:36 am PST #5547 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
He's been a radio talk show host here for the last few years and before that had a unsuccessful run to be the Republican nominee for the Senate. He has an astonishingly simplistic view of the world and no idea how government works. He called the Obama health care plan "treason" repeatedly.
Kathy A - Nov 09, 2011 5:54:29 am PST #5548 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Our president is really good with kids.
Steph L. - Nov 09, 2011 5:55:15 am PST #5549 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
There have been. There was one alum yesterday who burned his diploma, saying he didn't want to be associated with a university that protects child molesters, and there have been some students calling for Joe to resign.
Penn State's President, Graham Spanier, was also made aware of Sandusky's actions: [link] I agree with the author that Spanier as well as Paterno should lose their jobs over this.
le nubian - Nov 09, 2011 6:02:42 am PST #5550 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Paterno has announced retirement, but I am hoping the victims/victims families sue Paterno, the president and the Board of Trustees.
Amy - Nov 09, 2011 6:06:55 am PST #5551 of 30001
Because books.
Have any of the victims come forward? Some (most?) of them are adults now, right?
Not that I feel they're obligated to, at all, just wondering. It's better to follow the story here than elsewhere.
Hil R. - Nov 09, 2011 6:09:40 am PST #5552 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This is so interesting -- a flyer for the first birth control clinic in the US, in 1916 in Brooklyn. [link] The text is in English, Hebrew, and Italian.
That's Yiddish, not Hebrew.
Have any of the victims come forward? Some (most?) of them are adults now, right?
The mothers of two of them have talked to one of the Harrisburg newspapers.
Jesse - Nov 09, 2011 6:10:31 am PST #5553 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's Yiddish, not Hebrew.
Oh, that makes more sense. I meant to say I was basically guessing on both non-English languages.
Amy - Nov 09, 2011 6:10:40 am PST #5554 of 30001
Because books.
In other (embarrassing) news, I'm having my ass handed to me in first Words with Friends game ever. I'll just be over cradling my humiliation to my chest.