Remember those halcyon days of youth, school dances, dragging main, listening to dedications sent out  on Stan's private line, movies and popcorn, the fun of skating at Roller King and cokes and fries. Memories are all that's left and now treasured.

 Success is not a harbor, but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit.

Jeffrey Fisher

It took scientists and engineers 43 Sols, but they were finally ready to launch the Phlying Phux.

Jeffrey Fisher

When the Moon sleeps

Of what does she dream

Of cows jumping over

Or dancing in her beams?

Where do dreams take her

What places has she been

Has she gone to visit Venus

Or heard the Martians sing?

She's seen the World wide over

From high up in her bed

The loving and the lieing

The living and the dead.

 

James Mango

When the fairy child was born they wrapped her in maple leaf and fed her nothing but caterpillars they found on the Butterfly Bush. In time the child grew and lo, one morning two iridescent blue butterflies sprouted from her head and she flew away to a land where parents were not so cruel, and lived happily ever after. The End.

 

In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant answered a math question that made the world erupt.

At the time, she was known for one astonishing fact: her IQ was 228—the highest ever recorded. She had read all 24 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica by age 10, and later became the face of Parade Magazine’s “Ask Marilyn” column.

Then came the Monty Hall Problem:

You’re on a game show with 3 doors. Behind one is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door. The host opens one of the remaining doors, revealing a goat.

Do you switch?

Marilyn said, yes—you should switch.

The backlash? Brutal.

Over 10,000 letters flooded in. Nearly 1,000 were from PhDs—most telling her she was wrong.

“You are the goat!” one wrote.

“Maybe women just don’t understand probability,” another said.

But Marilyn was right.

Switching gives you a 2/3 chance of winning.

Staying? Only 1/3.

It took MIT simulations, TV shows like MythBusters, and countless professors to finally admit—she saw what they couldn’t.

Why did so many get it wrong?

Because the math felt wrong. The problem was simple—but our intuition isn’t built for probability. And because she was a woman, many ignored the logic and attacked the person.

Marilyn later said the real issue wasn’t math. It was how we teach thinking.

“Schools discourage independent thought,” she said. “We’re trained to memorize—not to reason.”

She still sees her gift as a blessing. But in a world that feared her brilliance, it was also a burden.

#WomenInSTEM #MathMatters

~Forgotten Stories

 

Every headline I see that says “mother on life support gives birth” disgusts me. Stop saying she gave birth. Stop providing cover for the evil monsters who are taking away our rights and experimenting on us. Period.

Feminist News

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Every headline I see that says “mother on life support gives birth” disgusts me. Stop saying she gave birth. Stop providing cover for the evil monsters who are taking away our rights and experimenting on us. Period.

They Called It a Miracle. But We Know the Truth: The State Stole Her Dignity.

A follow-up to my previous article on Adriana Smith, whose body became the battleground for Georgia’s abortion laws.

Read the original here: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16i9fMXKjX/

By Tony Pentimalli

On June 13th, at just 23 weeks gestation, a baby named Chance was delivered from the lifeless body of Adriana Smith, a 31-year-old nurse, mother, daughter, and friend who had been declared brain dead four months earlier. The child, weighing under two pounds, now fights for survival in a Georgia NICU. The state that claimed to defend life has finally allowed Adriana to die.

She is scheduled to be taken off life support this week, not because her family’s grief was finally honored, nor because medical ethics prevailed, but because the State got what it wanted. Her body served its court-imposed sentence. A heartbeat for a heartbeat. A birth extracted from a corpse.

Let’s be clear: this was never about life. It was about dominion.

Adriana never consented to this. Her family begged for dignity. Her doctors knew she was gone. But Georgia’s abortion ban, laced with language declaring embryos legal “persons” from the moment of detection, rendered her wishes irrelevant. The state froze her death in place, subordinated her humanity to fetal development, and commandeered her body for months, as if she were property.

This was not medicine. It was ideological bondage. And it was entirely preventable.

Even Georgia’s own attorney general admitted that removing life support would not have violated state law. But the damage was done. Hospitals and doctors feared legal ambiguity, moral crusaders, and political retaliation. And so Adriana remained tethered to machines—her chest rising and falling like a lie, until the fetus grew strong enough to be cut free.

They’re calling it a miracle. But no miracle begins with a woman’s death and ends with the state dragging her family through months of forced grief. No miracle requires a government to play god while pretending it’s playing savior.

Now a baby fights for survival, and the mother who bore him will finally be laid to rest.

What will they tell Chance one day? That his mother died, and then the state imprisoned her body until he was ready to be born? That her final gift was involuntary, her sacrifice stolen, her dignity denied?

This is the America Dobbs v. Jackson built. Where your rights vanish the moment a heartbeat is detected. Where death itself is not enough to restore bodily autonomy. Where a woman can be forced to serve the state—literally—after she’s gone.

Adriana Smith was not a martyr. She was a victim of cruelty disguised as law. A casualty of theocratic policy. Her story is a warning.

We pray for Chance. But we rage for Adriana.

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*Tony Pentimalli is a political analyst and commentator fighting for democracy, economic justice, and social equity. Follow him for sharp analysis and hard-hitting critiques on Facebook and BlueSky

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Just for the record, tell us again how important to Republicans and the church the infant is vs the forced birth to punish girls and women. Infants you will notice, are disposable, having served their purpose of shaming women and or young girls. Throwing a newborn into a cesspool is so much more expedient than an abortion according to Christians, church leaders and men.