Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Review: No Retreat, No Surrender: The Inspiring Story of a World-Champion Sportsman and Cancer Warrior

No Retreat, No Surrender: The Inspiring Story of a World-Champion Sportsman and Cancer Warrior No Retreat, No Surrender: The Inspiring Story of a World-Champion Sportsman and Cancer Warrior by Oscar Chalupsky
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This resulted in not only a lot of driving - and I mean a lot - but also hours and hours of waiting. Many of the races started in the morning and only ended in the afternoon. I was either waving goodbye at the beginning or waving frantically at the end to show him where I was.


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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Review: Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party by Max Blumenthal
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In 1996, Henry Adams, Lester Wright, and Bethany Lohr, psychiatrists and researchers at the University of Georgia, investigated the link between homophobia and repressed homosexuality, surveying over fifty self-declared heterosexual males on their opinions of gays. The subjects were then separated into two groups: homophobic and nonhomophobic. Both groups were shown gay male pornography and were monitored for signs of sexual arousal. (The results appeared in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association.) The study revealed that by an overwhelming margin, the subjects who registered the largest increase in penis circumference—those most aroused by gay pornography—also held the most homophobic opinions. The remarkable findings of this experiment suggest a clue to why the modern radical right, the most homophobic political movement in American history, has become a sanctuary for repressed gay men.


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Review: The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math from One to Infinity

The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math from One to Infinity by Steven H. Strogatz My rating: 3 of 5 stars ...