Same Damn Story

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What Can we

learn?

Welcome.

But I have to ask….

A hundred years from now, will we still be telling the same damn stories ….?

“The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time-maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.”
― Leslie T. Chang

  • If she lives…

    in 1910, Alma Landgren, a married mother of two, suffered days of “untold and constant agony” before dying of peritonitis, a bacterial infection and common cause of abortion-related deaths before antibiotics were available. The doctor performing Alma’s “illegal operation” was incompetent, yes, but Alma had been poor and desperate. To go to the hospital- and

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  • Those addicted to cigarettes

    “Among the men addicted to cigarettes are to be found those who detest it the most…” Sacramento Union, 1895 … According to the Sacramento Union on Feb. 6, 1896, some of the best physicians in New York were warning that “the boy who became a confirmed cigarette smoker at age of ten was reasonably sure

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  • Did Woke and DEI Stop a Harris Election?

    It was weeks before I heard someone say it—and I was glued to the news (granted, MY more progressive NPR and BBC news) after Trump won the 2024 election. But still, it was weeks after the election before I heard one straight talking woman called it out. She acknowledged that Harris’s defeat may have been…

  • Bell Bottoms as sign of rebellion

    Talk about random. I am researching an early San Francisco pickpocket named Annie Piggott and learned that when her first husband William Cronin was a teen in 1884, he longed to be a hoodlum (which was basically a lazy young man prone to petty theft and vandalism when he was bored) . William thought he…

  • ladies wishing to enlarge their busts…

    A quick google search tells me we call this breast “enhancement” or “augmentation” now . And apparently some companies will do the job (small, large, xl, xxl sizes) for as little as $2,500. In case one was wondering, this was also included in google’s results: Can you enlarge breasts without surgery? The National Library of…

  • People Diet and Exercise – but Fear has sickened them

    The greatest enemy of the human race is fear, says C Franklin Leavitt, MD. Many people diet and exercise to regain their health, he pointed out, “But fear alone has sickened them.” Leavitt quotes psychologists, including William James, who believe that every thought and accompanying emotion causes  physical changes in breathing, circulation, general muscular tension,…