Humans really do have such fragile minds, don't they?

"Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.

Stanford President David Starr Jordan originated the notion of "race and blood" in his 1902 racial epistle "Blood of a Nation," in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood.

In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers carefully plotted the removal of families, bloodlines and whole peoples. From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation's social service agencies and associations.

The Harriman railroad fortune paid local charities, such as the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, to seek out Jewish, Italian and other immigrants in New York and other crowded cities and subject them to deportation, confinement or forced sterilization.

The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.

Much of the spiritual guidance and political agitation for the American eugenics movement came from California's quasi-autonomous eugenic societies, such as Pasadena's Human Betterment Foundation and the California branch of the American Eugenics Society, which coordinated much of their activity with the Eugenics Research Society in Long Island. These organizations -- which functioned as part of a closely-knit network -- published racist eugenic newsletters and pseudoscientific journals, such as Eugenical News and Eugenics, and propagandized for the Nazis."

"Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection"

By Edwin Black

https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php

Was Watson really a sociopath and a narcissist???

He had such a charming backstory about starting out by going around the hills of upstate New York and meeting the local folks as a friendly salesman. What happened?!?!

"IBM and the Holocaust"

https://besacenter.org/ibm-holocaust/

"But it was IBM that helped the Third Reich create the industrial, high-speed, six million-victims Holocaust—metering ghetto residents out to trains, then carefully scheduling the moving of those trains to concentration camps for mass murder and cremation within hours, clearing the way for the next shipment of victims, day and night."

~ Edwin Black

Anyways, I think it's nice to think so!

Maybe I'd be richer if I hadn't had quite so many devastating menstrual cramps to deal with in this life. But perhaps I do serve a higher power, after all! I had a lot on my plate, man.

But seriously, and for real.

Lots of men born in a certain generation. Don't have great impulse control. Would someone like this ever turn into a lonely spy? How can you let the pandemics do such things to you; we're not just talking about COVID!

"Conan O’Brien frolics with Netanyahu"

https://mondoweiss.net/2017/09/frolics-netanyahu-israeli/

Haven't tried it yet...

This is supposed to make mediocre wine taste better!

"Water Discs | Structured Water Devices | Tri-Vortex"

https://trivortex.com.au/products/water-discs/

I thought the ending was kind of silly.

And it was also like, "Wow this mediocre red wine really tastes good right now!"

If a body's been in pain for like 7 days and then isn't in pain all of a sudden,you got to, like, enjoy it.

I feel like if you put that film and "Riphagen" in double feature and you ended with that film, a lot of people would leave and feel like they were in an upbeat kind of mood.

Okay, feel fine, gonna watch the movie now.

I really enjoyed that article. People who haven't read the "Emily of New Moon" books are missing out!

I say! Isn't this lovely?

"In her relationship with cats, Emily offers an alternative model of parenting to the one she herself experiences. Framing herself as a surrogate parent to her cats, Emily identifies “proudly” as having “brought them up herself.” Yet when Emily explains to Ellen that a “living present is so nice … because it keeps on getting nicer all the time,” she is recognizing the dynamic nature of the animal rather than her own authority over it.39 The feline companion’s capacity to “[keep] on getting nicer all the time” is disconnected from the rhetoric of the education of children, the training of pets, or the manicuring of nature into elaborate formal gardens; rather than focusing upon improving or altering natural behaviours, Emily’s observation offers a tacit acknowledgement of the individual animal’s dynamic nature revealing itself across time to the sympathetic human caregiver. Yi-Fu Tuan argues that the transformation of an animal into a pet through “successful training” is necessarily a “harsh” story of power that acts “against the victim’s own strong desires and nature.”40 In contrast to her Murray relatives, Emily presents herself as a parent uninterested in the exercise of power over another being. As an observer-parent, Emily recognizes the uniqueness of her animal companions and attends to their differences with respectful affection. Emily individualizes her cats, identifying them as unique and discrete beings: the acknowledged “favourite,” Mike, endears himself with his sweet ways, while Saucy Sal, a creature of “weird beauty,” is a “redoubtable fighter” who “vanquish[es]” other cats and dogs with “fearless[ness].”41 The names of both cats take the form of cozy, familiar nicknames emphasizing their emplacement within the fond, affectionate structure of the Starr household; however, Saucy Sal’s name, with its accompanying adjective, evokes feminine boldness, liveliness, and perhaps even irreverence. Their distinct names, personalities, and mannerisms emphasize the quiddity of each feline companion. Emily accepts rather than seeks to mould their nature and, in so doing, models an alternative mode of parenting that replaces the privileging of being good with the freedom of being oneself."

~ Daniella Janes

"A Cat of One’s Own: The Woman Writer and the Feline Companion in Emily of New Moon"

https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision/Janes/A-Cat-of-Ones-Own-The-Woman-Writer-and-the-Feline-Companion-in-Emily-of-New-Moon

Oh, goody!

"A Cat of One’s Own: The Woman Writer and the Feline Companion in Emily of New Moon"

Contributors

Daniela Janes

https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/vision/Janes/A-Cat-of-Ones-Own-The-Woman-Writer-and-the-Feline-Companion-in-Emily-of-New-Moon

Guess what I can do.

 Eat some mediocre pizza with some salad and sip some mediocre wine and watch the rest of a movie! It's possible! It's happening! Maybe some of the remedies worked.

It's daunting just to survive the day sometimes

If only it didn't seem like the greedy, materialistic people were so determined to make the world world worse and more unsafe in multiple ways, including when it comes to having access to healthcare, for example.

People can have good things in their lives, and that's good.

People should have good things. 

I suppose it's possible that some of the people who seem strange are just getting through their days as well. They're just getting through them with more "access to certain resources" shall we say.

Earth Life is almost too strange sometimes.

It's amazing what some people accept as a normal reality while others are just trying to get through the day.

This probably wasn't very long ago.

 "I first met a migrant farmworker when I was 13, stocking produce in my parents’ rural grocery store..."

~ Brianna Ramirez, class of 2026 at the UNC School of Medicine

"Guest Essay: Migrant farmworkers feed us. Why don’t we protect them?"

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025/09/opinion-guest-essay-protect-migrant-farmworkers

Fill in the blank 😂

You should make a film about a dad who's tormented by the thought of whether a daughter might or might not turn out like her.... 

Well anyway, something for the purpose of questioning things, but not to cause more undue stress that is not going to help, because there's enough of that going around now.

You never know you never know you never know!

Today is the best day in a long time as far as not having any cramps to deal with. So I wonder if I can finish watching, what's it called, 

"Hans Landa & Shosanna Restaurant Scene"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6dUb952ZCQ4&si=K2J-cFfUPc1o1Oyn

"Inglorious Basterds"... Maybe so!

Anyways, more people seem to be embracing feminism, compared in the past.

"Sincerely, a former trad wife."

~ thetruthfulg

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKTRA2rNZQp/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

"Me explaining that some guys crave male validation more than girls do..."

chervy.femme

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOYOjBuCGTC/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

You need access to water to do anything in this world.

"Farmworkers often have to enduring punishing temperatures while harvesting crops — and now, thanks to climate change, summers are getting even hotter and longer. Heat-related illnesses are just one of the many health risks that farmers and farmworkers face as part of their work. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

When we think of farming, a lot of us picture idyllic scenes — endless blue skies, lush fields of green crops, and freshly picked vegetables. As rewarding as farming can be, it’s also incredibly demanding work — physically, and mentally.

And in some ways, farming is getting harder, as factors like climate change, and the shifting political and economic landscape have introduced a host of new challenges that are having real effects on the well-being of farmers and the people who produce our food.

On this episode, we explore the connection between farming and health, and some solutions that could make our food system more resilient."

"Protecting the People Who Grow Our Food - WHYY"

https://whyy.org/episodes/protecting-the-people-who-grow-our-food/

Today I remembered that adding lemon and cucumber to water is really good.

Why can't the people who provide for us have access to good water? This is not a way to treat human beings.

"Water for crops, but not for those who pick them — a tale as old as time for California’s farmworkers. But the latest threat to farmworkers and their water supply has nothing to do with the state’s notoriously polluted groundwater. It’s the fear of being deported by federal immigration authorities knocking down their doors.

Maria, an agricultural worker who asked to be identified only by her first name, has a story that grounds this plight. The water in her unincorporated community of Royal Oaks in California’s Central Coast region is contaminated with nitrates, rendering it unsafe for drinking or cooking. She was enrolled in a free bottled water program until federal agents seized her son.

She withdrew from the program, afraid that identifying information used to deliver the water to her home could be weaponized by immigration enforcement. A month has passed without news of her son’s whereabouts.

'Recently, several people have been taken away in the area,' Maria says in a translated interview for Circle of Blue. 'This fear prevents us from asking for help or accessing programs that could support us.'”

~ Anahita Banerjee

"ICE Raids in California Block Farmworker Access to Clean Water"

https://www.circleofblue.org/2025/water-policy-politics/water-rights-access/ice-raids-in-california-block-farmworker-access-to-clean-water/

It's time to learn how to stitch a star on my foot!

"7 GENIUS Ways to Fix ANY Hole Every Girl Should Know"

Repair & Rewear

https://youtube.com/watch?v=c8hwqPPMaaQ&si=-Iw1rvGjqDcRzbEj