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A Dark Vision: Protomartyr, "I Am You Now"

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))8/08/2020 4:54:36 am PDT

re: #192 Sherlock Hound

The late Bruce Williams did financial talk radio for years. Towards the end of his career, he was a real prick, a lot like Not-A-Doctor Laura Schlesinger. You’ll recall that Laura made her bones belittling callers to her show. (And also that she had a degree in physiology, NOT psychology!) These people don’t want any of us to have agency or authority over ourselves. But we knew that.

I used to listen into Dr Laura on AFN, and I would rate her shows by a point system: one point for a single mom, one for each child said mom had had before age 18, one for each child by multiple fathers, two points for the words “restraining order” or “child protective services, thee points for any mention of “incest”.

Then she had a caller who wanted to get back together with the father of her child, who had died in her father’s care of blunt-force trauma. Father claimed he was just “playing a bit too rough” with the child, and although the doctor insisted that could not have been accidental, he was not charged.

Her family was totally against her getting back together with him, but she loved him and wanted to have another child with him… Even Doctor Laura was speechless.