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Bipedal – The Scrambling Theory
Working on the principle that you can never have too many options, another hypothesis for human bipedalism has entered the fray. For decades proponents of the Savanna Theory have been looking down their noses at advocates of the Aquatic Ape Theory. How will the incumbents react to the newcomer, the upstart Scrambler Man Hypothesis? Will they band together to heap scorn on it, or will the Aquatic Ape crowd be sympathetic to a plight so like their own? Continue reading
Spanking for Love
I had a hard time with this. I found it so bizarre that I thought it must be a hoax or a parody. But I went to the Learning Domestic Discipline website and found it to be so earnest and sincere that I had to accept its reality. There actually is something called Christian Domestic Discipline and it really does recommend that men hit their wives. It even has a blog, complete with a section on the Women’s Perspective, to explain and justify it. In addition it has:
Punishment One: Corner Time
“Within a Domestic Discipline marriage, there are several different types of punishments that can be administered, most of which are pretty straight forward. I plan on going into elaborate detail with each one, and we’ll start with one of the most basic punishments – corner time (also referred to as a time out).”
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The Importance of Crying
“I’ve always found it difficult to stress the importance of the wife crying at some point during the spanking process.”
Notice that it is assumed that the man will do the hitting and the woman will do the crying.
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Maintenance Spankings
“Maintenance spankings provide a way for the husband to keep the wife on the right track, as well as provide a means for the wife to get an emotional release.”
She hasn’t broken the rules. He just needs to hit her to help her remember. “Emotional release?”
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Punishing In Public – How To Handle It
“I regularly get asked how to handle the wife when she’s acting out in a public setting.”
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Head of the Household (HoH)
The man, of course.
Okay, I admit that this seems to be real. That people do this. That the victims go along with it. They have a PDF file (54 pages) for beginners, and they’ve even published an ebook. I still find it bizarre, though.
All photos credit the Learning Domestic Discipline website.
rjb
Happy Birthday – Pay Up
The Happy Birthday song has been around for a long time. It is so popular and so ubiquitous that it’s part of the Commons. It’s obviously in the Public Domain, belonging to everyone, free for everyone to sing.
If you believe that, then it could get you in trouble. It cost filmmaker Jennifer Nelson fifteen hundred dollars. She was making a documentary about the song and found out during the process that someone holds the copyright on it and wanted her money. She paid the ransom so she could get on with her project, but now she’s taking them to court to try to set Happy Birthday free. Here’s a copy of the complaint on Scribd, the document sharing site. The Hollywood Reporter also has an article on the class action lawsuit.
With another angle on the harm caused by excessive copyright, here’s an article concerning the problems it is causing for Oliver Sacks. It contains a link to an essay by Sacks in the New York Times Book Review, where he complains about the dearth of large-print books. From Sacks’ essay:
“I came out frustrated, and furious: did publishers think the visually impaired were intellectually impaired too?” – Oliver Sacks
When something like Happy Birthday can still be shackled by copyright more than a century later, something is wrong with copyright law. You can find my previous posts on copyright here, here, here and here.
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