Dr Wingnut

Day: October 17, 2007

  • Hope

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    True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.Walter Anderson, American painter

  • Bad boys

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    Little boys, the thinking went, were naturally indisposed to bathing.  Bath toys not only made hygiene boyishly fun; they helped overcome the naughty urges that bathing tended to arouse: “The baby will not spend much time handling his genitals if he has other interesting things to do,” one government-issue child-care manual advised in 1942.  “See…