Friday Reads

Obituary: Susannah Mushatt Jones, 116, the world's oldest person and the last American born in the 19th century, has died:

Born July 6, 1899, in Lowndes County, Alabama, Jones was the granddaughter of slaves. She dreamed of becoming a teacher, but couldn't afford tuition to the Tuskegee Institute and instead moved to New York, New York, and worked in child care.

Jones was briefly married, from 1928 to 1933, but had no children. However, she had more than 100 nieces and nephews. When Time magazine asked her secret for longevity, Jones just offered, "Believe in the Lord." Some attribute her long life to clean living: she never smoked or drank alcohol. But she ate four strips of bacon for breakfast every morning, along with scrambled eggs, grits, and a multivitamin.
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Good for this woman who resisted wearing high heels on her job.

Women need to tell men, including employers, to shove those shoes up their asses and tell them women are not on this earth for their entertainment.
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Emma Morano, 116, is now the last person in the world who was born in the 1800s. She lives in Italy.
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The train has left the station, Bernie, and it is time to do the right thing and drop out.
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Donald Trump got involved in yet another embarrassing incident.

For the record:



He also doesn't do background checks on the hired help.
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Well, no shit, Sherlock. The issue should be about women and girls' safety, not about the "rights" of a bunch of sexual fetishists to get off.
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More about the tyranny of crappy footwear for women.
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And here is another piece about shitty shoes.
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