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Not good news at all. AOC is the Sarah Palin of the left, only AOC has NPD on top of being a blithering idiot.
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More and more single adults are meeting partners, even marrying them, after going on these online "dating" sites. This despite the high rate of frustration of meeting anybody suitable there, plus the real dangers for women in terms of safety and fraud.
Not that the other ways are and were all that. However, work environments, unlike when I was young, are largely off-limits as places to meet possible partners thanks to concerns about sexual harassment. Most other places such as hobby groups, churches, volunteer organizations, political groups, hiking and cycling groups, and travel groups either trend under 35 or 40 or they are full of married men from the vantage point of single women. The only places pre-internet where single, age-appropriate men were happened to have been bars and nightclubs because men were socialized into using those venues to pick up women. If a woman was like me and not a drinker or a dancer, she would be at a huge disadvantage.
Not much has changed, only the meat market aspect of "online dating" is way, way, way worse. If you photograph terrible like I do or are older, it is generally a waste of time.
The reason family especially has declined in influence is because people are marrying much later in life or not at all, and chances are very good parents are dead or they and other family members live far away.
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Obituary: Former USSC justice John Paul Stevens, only 99, has reportedly died. Appointed by President Gerald Ford, he was considered the leader of the so-called "liberal" wing of the high court.
Stevens served on the court from 1976 to his retirement in 2010 at the age of 90. He was the second-longest serving high court justice in American history.
But while believing that judicial deference was often appropriate, he also believed that the federal courts must be available when other institutions of government failed to do their jobs. “I firmly believe that the Framers of the Constitution expected and intended the vast open spaces in our charter of government to be filled not only by legislative enactment but also by the common-law process of step-by-step adjudication,” he said in a 1991 speech at the University of Chicago.
That university was his alma mater, and his family had deep roots in Chicago. John Paul Stevens was born there on April 20, 1920, and grew up in a Georgian-style house in the Hyde Park neighborhood. He was the fourth son and youngest child of Ernest James Stevens, a wealthy businessman with interests in real estate and insurance, and the former Elizabeth Street, an English teacher.
In 1909 his grandfather, James W. Stevens, an ambitious and successful financier, had built what was then Chicago’s biggest hotel, the LaSalle. His appetite whetted, the older Stevens then formed the family-owned Stevens Hotel Company to build and operate the world’s biggest hotel, a blocklong, 28-story, 3,000-room behemoth on Michigan Avenue that opened in 1927 as the Stevens Hotel.
Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart were among the many celebrities the young John Paul Stevens met there. Those early encounters may have inspired him; he became an avid pilot himself, flying his single-engine Cessna 172 around the Midwest for many years.
It is a very long, good obituary.
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Dipshit dude running for Mississippi governor invokes the Mike Pence rule when it comes to women other than his wife.
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