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Women in Ireland voted to repeal this country's oppressive abortion law.    The repeal passed by about a two-to-one margin.
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Obituary:  Astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 86.

During his time on the moon, Bean initiated experiments and installed the first nuclear-powered generator station on the moon to provide the power source, NASA said. He and Conrad also collected 75 pounds of soil and rocks to bring back to Earth for study. 
Bean also flew into space in 1973 as the commander of the second crewed flight to the U.S.' first space station, NASA said. 

He later became a painter.
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No doubt this mentor of Jordan Peterson is now on Peterson's and his fans' shit lists.

I thought long and hard before writing about Jordan, and I do not do this lightly. He has one of the most agile and creative minds I’ve ever known. He is a powerful orator. He is smart, passionate, engaging and compelling and can be thoughtful and kind.
I was once his strongest supporter.
That all changed with his rise to celebrity. I am alarmed by his now-questionable relationship to truth, intellectual integrity and common decency, which I had not seen before. His output is voluminous and filled with oversimplifications which obscure or misrepresent complex matters in the service of a message which is difficult to pin down. He can be very persuasive, and toys with facts and with people’s emotions. I believe he is a man with a mission. It is less clear what that mission is.

He gives Peterson too much credit on the "intellect" department.  Peterson is dumber than a box of rocks.
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Speaking of which, Peterson doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to feminism.
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Peterson also doesn't believe in equality of opportunity.  He is a total white male supremacist.
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