Dr Wingnut

Year: 2007

  • 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…

  • Sin

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    The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.Paula Poundstone

  • State of the Web

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    I ran across this interesting graphic the other day and thought it was interesting enough to hold on to.  Five years from now, we’ll look back and; laugh…via email from ,

  • Drowning in trash

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    And Man create the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate and the disposable bottle, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy his food all in one place and he could save that which was good to eat in the…

  • Is that right

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    This page I scanned out of the Hazelden recovery catalog contained an interesting caution (Lower right corner, click the image to see it in full size):Note: Because these movies contain scenes of individuals using alcohol and drugs, they may be inappropriate for viewing by individuals in treatment or recovery.That’s quite an interesting thing to include…

  • Failure

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    Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness.  We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.Samuel McChord Crothers

  • How’s your fuel economy?

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    I’ve always been concerned with the fuel economy of the automobiles that I purchase, because I remember sitting in those damn lines in the 1970’s during the oil embargo.  So the very first car I purchased was a Honda Civic in 1985, followed by a VW Passat in 1995, and currently a 2006 VW Jetta…