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Listen, son, when I was your age, I thought I knew everything, and it looks like we have that in common. You think you know what this is all about? You think you understand what it means to be married to someone for over forty years?
I’ve been married since 1977, and let me tell you, it’s been a nonstop fuckfest ever since.
You think marriage is all picket fences and tomato gardens? Well, guess what, when you’re in a monogamous relationship, the erotic pressure doesn’t quit. It builds and builds for decades to the point you think it will break you. You glance in the mirror and don’t recognize yourself, the way lust has warped your features.
Look across the table, and you see the woman you love. She, too, has been disfigured by this carnal addiction you share. You make eye contact as her foot brushes your leg.
Looks like another dinner will be eaten cold.
Oh sure, you’re thinking, Doesn’t having kids slow you down? Yeah, right. Stuck at home with each other 24-7, plus you have to sneak around to make love? Your mother is into that kind of thing. I’ve had to hide from that woman. She is insatiable.
- by Aeon Video
- by Evan Thompson
- by Lisa Mueller
Join a panel of experts for a conversation that tackles the moral and ethical obligations integral to research and investing priorities.
When: 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm, October 14, 2014
Where: Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre 315, University of Sydney
Registrations: https://events.humanitix.com/weapons-climate-justice-and-investing-ethically
We are living in an era of overlapping crises: from climate catastrophe to devastating wars, alongside the age-old ravages of inequality at home and across the globe. As these struggles escalate, many ordinary people are questioning their own responsibility, and possibility of their complicity, in these disasters. What prospects are there for responding? What avenues for meaningful action?
With the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine, these concerns have come into sharper focus. This panel of experts will examine some of these uncomfortable questions, and our moral and ethical obligations to address adverse human rights and climate justice impacts.
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Double book launch for:
False Profits of Ethical Capital: Finance, Labour and the Politics of Risk by Claire Parfitt
Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations by Lian Sinclair
When: 630pm, Tuesday 29 October, 2024
Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Registration: https://gleebooks.com.au/event/claire-parfitt-and-lian-sinclair-double-launch/
The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education back into the spotlight. Of course, financial ties between the Pentagon and American universities are nothing new. As Stuart Leslie has pointed out in his seminal book on the topic, The Cold War and American Science, “In the decade following World War II, the Department of Defense (DOD) became the biggest patron of American science.” Admittedly, as civilian institutions like the National Institutes of Health grew larger, the Pentagon’s share of federal research and development did decline, but it still remained a source of billions of dollars in funding for university research. And now, Pentagon-funded research... Read more