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You know how you can take out books from some libraries, and return them to another branch, where they shelve rather than return them? I've started taking out as many books at a time from my local library as i can, and returning them to other branches. I do this every day. I don't even read them. I calculate it will take another nine and a half months to empty the library entirely.

American wimyn have more negative feelings about their bodies than wimyn anywhere else in the world. What's America's biggest global export? Culture.

Screw-on sound amplifier for small-caliber handguns - made up, or actual thing?*

I've got a brilliant angle on people who are drawn to the "wounded" or "lost" ones - perhaps we shouldn't try to psychoanalyze them in terms of what they're attracted to, but rather what they're AVOIDING. Anyone who can manage to convince themselves that they're NOT wounded is in about seventeen kinds of denial, and it would probably be exhausting to have a relationship with them. So an affinity for the wounded ones, rather than being self-defeating, might be the only semi-sane solution around.

Malcolm x, abdul-jabbar, ali...i have the utmost respect for blacks who reject their slave names. The unmitigated arrogance of white people - to not just enslave humyn beings, but then name those slaves jefferson or washington or jackson? So...how do i reject my slave master name? Obviously religious fundamentalism is out. Hmmm...since i only use one name currently, perhaps i should add a second? Something peaceful, like wrob daffodil? Or deferential, like wrob africa? I'm open to suggestions here.

Yogurt soda - made up, or actual thing?*

For thousands of years, the inferiority of wimyn has been justified by eve's being "born of adam's rib". Now that we know that all fetuses are female at first, must we henceforth declare men inferior to wimyn?

The equivalent of "ballsy" would be "ovariesy"...or maybe "eggsy". Yeah, linguistically, i don't think either of those are going to catch on...

Believers either have one foot in heaven, which makes them halfway somewhere else, or they think god is in the room too. So you can have a one-on-1/2 conversation, or a one-on-1.5 conversation, but a one-on-one conversation with a believer never really seems to be an option.

Perfume made from the pheromones of rich people - made up, or actual thing?*

The correct translation of eve's name? "Life". Gee, i wonder why the church bungled that one? Adam and life.

*made-up, made-up, actual